{"id":240471,"date":"2026-07-08T15:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/small-transistor-sharpens-low-cost-thermal-cameras-without-extreme-cooling"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:02:41","slug":"small-transistor-sharpens-low-cost-thermal-cameras-without-extreme-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/small-transistor-sharpens-low-cost-thermal-cameras-without-extreme-cooling","title":{"rendered":"Small transistor sharpens low-cost thermal cameras without extreme cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/small-transistor-sharpens-low-cost-thermal-cameras-without-extreme-cooling2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With help from a small transistor, a team of researchers led by Professor Fengnian Xia figured out a way to make a type of thermal imaging technology dramatically more accurate. The results are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44460-026-00056-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Robots, drones, self-driving vehicles and other autonomous devices rely on thermal sensing and imaging to navigate the spaces they travel in. It\u2019s also used in many other technologies, including night vision, remote thermometers and rescue operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With help from a small transistor, a team of researchers led by Professor Fengnian Xia figured out a way to make a type of thermal imaging technology dramatically more accurate. The results are published in Nature Sensors. Robots, drones, self-driving vehicles and other autonomous devices rely on thermal sensing and imaging to navigate the spaces [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240471","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}