tiny crystal films could make night vision an everyday reality

  • Written by: Rocio Camacho Morales, Postdoctoral fellow, ARC Center of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), Australian National University
tiny crystal films could make night vision an everyday realityArtist's impression of the view through future night-vision glasses.Lei Xu / NTU, Author provided

It’s a familiar vision to anyone who has watched a lot of action movies or played Call of Duty: a ghostly green image that makes invisible objects visible. Since the development of the first night-vision devices in the mid-1960s, the technology...

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