Cost-effective
production of infrared lenses
Research
News Aug 01, 2012
If
visibility is poor, thermal cameras can warn drivers of people or animals on
the road. Yet such devices have been very expensive – until now. An important
step has been taken to manufacture them more cheaply. A new process will make
the infrared lenses – a component of such cameras – up to 70 percent cheaper.
Rain pelts
down on the roof of the car; it is difficult to make out anything in the pitch
dark. Suddenly, a deer runs out of the forest and onto the road, but the driver
cannot respond in time. When it comes to such dangerous situations,
micro-bolometers constitute one way of “extending” the human eye and defusing
such dangerous situations.
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