In 1666 Isaac Newton used a prism to disperse a beam of sunlight, splitting the white light into a colored band, or the color spectrum. It consisted of the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. For more than a...

Invisible band of wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum beyond visible red. The region of the electromagnetic spectrum including wavelengths from 0.78 to 1000 m (wave number range 20,000 to 4000...

The taking up of energy from infrared radiation by a medium through which the radiation is...

Infrared (IR) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of microwaves. The name means "below red" (from the Latin infra, "below"), red being the color of visible light with the...

From astronomy and military tactics to television remotes, the unseen radiation of the rainbow "color" beyond red has changed our world. On February 14 this year, after a four-year-long journey from Earth, NASA's NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) spacecraft entered into orbit...

Want to reduce energy costs, increase productivity and improve product quality? Here are four things you can do with infrared to improve your drying process. Drying coatings or saturants on substrates is a common process heating application. The simple process of evaporating...

For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you.With the expiration of a key patent, major gas grill manufacturers, including market leader...

A plane equipped with heat-seeking equipment joined the four-day-old search Tuesday for a 25-year-old sergeant who disappeared during a training exercise on this vast Army base.Sgt. Lawrence G. Sprader, one of nearly 320 noncommissioned officers being trained as part of a two-week leadership course, is...