by Raphael Pfattner, Victor Lebedev, Elena Laukhina, Suddapalli Chaitanya Kumar, Adolfo Esteban-Martin, Venkata Ramaiah-Badarla, Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, Francisco Pelayo García de Arquer, Gerasimos Konstantatos, Vladimir Laukhin, Concepció Rovira, and Jaume Veciana;
Advanced Electronic Materials, 2015,
DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201500090
Bilayer films, composed of a thin-layer of pyroresistive submicrometer sized crystals on top of a polymeric thin-film, can be used both as a direct-contact thermometer and as passive infrared sensor. These materials are capable of detecting, radiation of a wide-range of wavelengths very rapidly and reversibly, as well as recognizing distant objects with applications in robotics, biomedicine, and human health care.