Cool idea: images of the bolometer on a silicon chip. (Courtesy: Jean-Philippe Girard/Aalto University) A new type of bolometer that covers a broad range of microwave frequencies has been created by ...

Chip-level future: an artist’s impression of how microscopic bolometers (in the chip on the right) could sense very weak radiation emitted from qubits (in the chip on the left). (Courtesy: Aleksandr ...

Devices such as digital cameras electronically measure levels of high-energy light, and that's good enough for most of us. Now, however, scientists have developed a mechanical alternative that works ...

(Nanowerk News) Bolometers are devices that measure the power of incident electromagnetic radiation thru the heating of materials, which exhibit a temperature-electric resistance dependence. These ...

Researchers have developed a better bolometer, a device for measuring electromagnetic radiation. The new technology is faster, simpler, and covers more wavelengths. Bolometers, devices that monitor ...

Scientists have hailed a new quantum computing breakthrough that could bring the revolutionary technology into the real world. The discovery could fundamentally change how quantum computers are able ...

The findings, published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology ("Fast thermal relaxation in cavity-coupled graphene bolometers with a Johnson noise read-out"), could help pave the way toward new kinds ...

ULIS, a Grenoble, France-based developer of thermal image sensors for commercial, defense and security applications, says it has achieved “unmatched performance” with its latest bolometer, a type of ...

A superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junction has shown a noise-equivalent power of 7 x 10-19W/√Hz, which corresponds to an energy resolution of a single 32GHz photon, according to an ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Army-funded research developed a new microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available commercial sensors. Researchers said ...