Ultraviolet light has always sat at the edge of human perception, powerful yet invisible, more associated with sterilizing ...
A bus being treated with ultraviolet light in Shanghai, China. Although types of UV light are already in use to decontaminate vehicles and indoor spaces, the wavelengths used are dangerous to people.
Indoor life is comfortable for pet birds, but it comes with one big downside: most homes don’t provide the kind of light ...
US labs NIST and DHS conduct thorough tests to show how different wavelengths interact with virus. To disinfect a surface, you can illuminate it with a blast of ultraviolet light. But to specifically ...
Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (GM-APDs) are highly sensitive light detectors, capable of detecting single photons. Photons of certain wavelengths, when absorbed by photodiodes, generate ...
With thickness tuneable properties, a material offering precise UV light manipulation, letting photonics developers create ...