Cheap costing thermal chips could create many new night-vision based products

05/16/2014 - 00:00

  <a href="http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/feature/rtn14_thermal.html">New, low-cost chips for sensing thermal energy could lead to a raft of new night-vision products, engineers say, ushering in everything from smarter cars to handheld devices for spelunking. <br><br>A new technology used by Raytheon, “wafer-level packaging,” dramatically reduces the cost of making these thermal sensors. The advances could – for the first time – put a thermal weapons sight in the hands of every soldier in a platoon. But the commercial and law-enforcement uses are endless, too, developers say.<br><br>READ MORE ON RAYTHEON</a>