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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

IR Sensors, Related Materials, and Applications.

Nikolaos Argirusis, Achilleas Achilleos, Niyaz Alizadeh, Christos Argirusis, Georgia Sourkouni

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Nikolaos ArgirusisMAT4NRG GmbH, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3788-8627
Achilleas AchilleosDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Division LMSD, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 300, Box 2420, 3001 Leuven, Belgium.
Niyaz AlizadehMAT4NRG GmbH, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.
Christos ArgirusisSchool of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), 15773 Zografou-Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7778-0146
Georgia SourkouniClausthal Centre of Materials Technology, TU Clausthal, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2313-9860

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Infrared (IR) sensors are widely used in various applications due to their ability to detect infrared radiation. Currently, infrared detector technology is in its third generation and faces enormous challenges. IR radiation propagation is categorized into distinct transmission windows with the most intriguing aspects of thermal imaging being mid-wave infrared (MWIR) and long-wave infrared (LWIR). Infrared detectors for thermal imaging have many uses in industrial applications, security, search and rescue, surveillance, medical, research, meteorology, climatology, and astronomy. Presently, high-performance infrared imaging technology mostly relies on epitaxially grown structures of the small-bandgap bulk alloy mercury-cadmium-telluride (MCT), indium antimonide (InSb), and GaAs-based quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs), contingent upon the application and wavelength range. Nanostructures and nanomaterials exhibiting appropriate electrical and mechanical properties including two-dimensional materials, graphene, quantum dots (QDs), quantum dot in well (DWELL), and colloidal quantum dot (CQD) will significantly enhance the electronic characteristics of infrared photodetectors, transition metal dichalcogenides, and metal oxides, which are garnering heightened interest. The present manuscript gives an overview of IR sensors, their types, materials commonly used in them, and examples of related applications. Finally, a summary of the manuscript and an outlook on prospects are given.

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infrared sensing materialsinfrared sensorsinfrared sensor typesphotoelectric detectorssensor applicationsthermal detectors

Identifiers

PMID39943315
PMCPMC11820572

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