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 ...

(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 ...

1. ZDNet – Researchers working at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona have built a super-sensitive photodetector by combining graphene with semiconducting quantum dots that ...

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 ...

Graphene is a remarkable material: light, strong, transparent and electrically conductive. It can also convert heat to electricity, and researchers have recently exploited this thermoelectric property ...

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 ...

The world’s largest bolometer camera for submillimeter astronomy is now in service at the 12-meter Atacama Pathrinder Experiment (APEX) telescope, located on the 5,100-meter-high Chajnantor plateau in ...

Army-funded research developed a microwave radiation sensor with 100,000 times higher sensitivity than currently available. Researchers said better detection of microwave radiation will enable ...

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 ...