A surface heat-treating process that produces a highly stressed surface. In case-hardening of glass, a plate of glass is heated almost to the softening point and then cooled quickly in a blast of cold air. This process causes the surface to harden...

A material that changes color as it is heated or cooled.

A method of designing lasers whereby the laser rod is cut into elliptical discs and cooled by running water over the disc...

A cryogenically cooled component incorporated into the Dewar of an infrared detector assembly to maintain the sensing...

A high-frequency pulse-rate laser with an output limited by the heat capacity of the laser medium. Instead of having...

A digital camera is a device that captures and records still images or video in digital format. Unlike traditional film...

An OLED display formed by creating an array of OLED pixels connected by intersecting anode and cathode conductors arranged...

The spectrographic analysis of matter that is in a cooled state. Generally, a mechanical refrigerator is used to lower the...

A display device having a thermoplastic film as the control layer medium. The film, moving from a playoff reel, is scanned...

An OLED display that has an integrated electronic backplane as its substrate. Active-matrix OLED displays use at least two...

An InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) camera is a type of imaging device that utilizes InGaAs sensors to capture images in the...

A microdisplay is a miniature electronic display technology that is designed to project visual information onto a small...

An infrared detector that achieves a specified sensitivity through the application of certain cryogenic temperatures.

Optoelectronics is a branch of electronics that focuses on the study and application of devices and systems that use light...

An infrared camera, also known as a thermal imaging camera or IR camera, is a device that captures and visualizes the...

An LED (light-emitting diode) is a semiconductor device that emits light when an electric current passes through it. LEDs...

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) equipment refers to a class of specialized apparatus used in the process of chemical vapor...

A gas laser wherein the gas mixture is not exhausted into the atmosphere but is continually recycled. It is excited in the...

QLED stands for quantum dot light-emitting diode. QLED is a display technology that utilizes quantum dots, which are...

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is a type of light-emitting diode (LED) technology that utilizes organic compounds to...

The area of optics in which the wave nature of a particle is exploited to carry out very accurate interferometry and other...

A flexible display refers to a type of electronic visual display that is designed to be bendable, foldable, or rollable,...

A method of producing high-quality plastic optics in large volumes by injecting the heated, liquified plastic at high...

Cold atoms refer to atoms that have been cooled to extremely low temperatures, typically in the microkelvin (µK) to...

A refrigeration method based on the Peltier effect. When an electric current passes through a thermocouple of two dissimilar...

A method of producing disks for erasable optical data storage. Information is recorded by a laser beam that generates pits...

1. A device generally used in a cathode-ray or camera tube to emit a stream of electrons moving at uniform velocity in a...

The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a widely used molecular biology technique used to amplify a specific segment of DNA...

A small fiber optic endoscope used in laser surgery.

A vacuum pump in which pressure is reduced by condensing gases on surfaces cryogenically cooled to about 20 K (liquid...

Epitaxial equipment refers to a set of specialized tools and systems used in the process of epitaxy, which is the growth of...

A photodetector composed of a photoconductive material that, when exposed to radiation, conducts without the aid of added...

An OLED display that has an integrated electronic backplane as its substrate. Active-matrix OLED displays use at least two...

An atomic clock is a highly precise timekeeping device that uses the vibrations or oscillations of atoms as a reference for...

A method of cleaning and drying coated optical components. The cooled parts are placed in a container above a boiling...