{"id":244142,"date":"2026-09-17T05:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/compact-optical-screen-could-pave-the-way-for-cheaper-infrared-cameras"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:34:13","slug":"compact-optical-screen-could-pave-the-way-for-cheaper-infrared-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/compact-optical-screen-could-pave-the-way-for-cheaper-infrared-cameras","title":{"rendered":"Compact optical screen could pave the way for cheaper infrared cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/compact-optical-screen-could-pave-the-way-for-cheaper-infrared-cameras.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research led by the ARC Center of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) at the University of Melbourne demonstrates a new way to make invisible infrared light visible without relying on the expensive detector technology used in today\u2019s infrared cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Infrared is a type of light our eyes can\u2019t see, but it carries information about heat and objects in the environment. It is widely used for environmental monitoring, industrial inspection, medicine and security.<\/p>\n<p>However, technologies such as infrared cameras remain expensive because they rely on specialized detectors that are costly to manufacture and often require cooling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research led by the ARC Center of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) at the University of Melbourne demonstrates a new way to make invisible infrared light visible without relying on the expensive detector technology used in today\u2019s infrared cameras. Infrared is a type of light our eyes can\u2019t see, but it carries information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244142","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}