{"id":107977,"date":"2020-05-31T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nanotech-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-night-vision"},"modified":"2020-06-01T00:01:34","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T07:01:34","slug":"nanotech-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-night-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/nanotech-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-night-vision","title":{"rendered":"Nanotech Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Night Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y0TDZb7U_l8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2016<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers build \u201cteeny, tiny structures\u201d that can change infrared to visible light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remember that famous Bin Laden raid? It <\/strong>would have been impossible without night vision \u2014 specifically, a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insighttechnology.com\/l3-products\/gpnvg\"> $65,000 L-3 Ground Panoramic Night Vision Goggles<\/a>. But even those top-of-the-line NVGs \u2014 former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2014\/11\/are-night-vision-goggles-used-bin-laden-raid-really-classified\/98090\/\"> compared<\/a> other night-vision systems to \u201clooking through toilet paper tubes\u201d \u2014 are heavy, clunky, and odd-looking. Now researchers from Australia have developed a material that can make infrared light visible, raising the possibility of night-vision goggles as thin as glass and free of external power.<\/p>\n<p>Conventional night vision goggles look a bit like binoculars and require electricity. Here\u2019s how they work: An \u201cobjective lens\u201d in front collects low-level and near-infrared light, whose photons are converted by a photocathode into electrons. The goggles use thousands of volts of electricity to send the electrons down a vacuum-sealed tube into a plate with millions of tiny holes. Pushing the electrons through the holes releases other electrons in a chain reaction called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US2141322\"> cascaded secondary emission.<\/a> The effect: where there was one electron, there are now hundreds, all in the same pattern as the original photons. When the electrons hit the final layer, which is covered in phosphorescent material, what was dark becomes light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2016 Researchers build \u201cteeny, tiny structures\u201d that can change infrared to visible light. Remember that famous Bin Laden raid? It would have been impossible without night vision \u2014 specifically, a pair of $65,000 L-3 Ground Panoramic Night Vision Goggles. But even those top-of-the-line NVGs \u2014 former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonette compared other night-vision systems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107983,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107977\/revisions\/107983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}