which is often called the far infrared, lies between the mid-infrared and microwave regions. It has remained largely unexplored until recently because generating and detecting radiation in this ...

The observatory would be a 1.8 meter telescope designed to study the far-infrared radiation that is permeating space. The ...

An IR spectrometer measures the absorption of infrared radiation by a sample. The resulting IR spectrum is characteristic of ... Channel 1 used a mercury-germanium sensor to detect far-infrared light.

Germanium photodiodes are cheaper and already fully compatible with the semiconductor manufacturing process—but so far, germanium ... rely on sensing infrared radiation that the technology ...