Hot stuff: schematic of the bolometer showing the graphene sheet in blue. (Courtesy: MIT) A new graphene-based bolometer has been created by Dmitri Efetov and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since its rediscovery by Professors Geim and Novoselov at The University of Manchester, graphene has been recognised as a revolutionary material with countless applications. It has extremely ...

(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 ...