Inaugural lectures at Imperial College London 2016-17

Join Professor Stepan Lucyszyn for his inaugural lecture as he explores the future commercial potential within the thermal infrared. Overview The ancient Greeks were the first to study the reflection and refraction properties of visible light. It then took thousands of years before the discovery of ‘light’ outside of our visible spectrum, with William Herschel discovering "calorific rays" (infrared radiation) and Johann Ritter discovering "chemical rays" (ultraviolet radiation). Scientific giants like Michael Faraday, André-Marie Ampère and James Clerk Maxwell went on to expand our understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. Today’s heavily overcrowded radio frequency spectrum has seen extensive commercial exploitation by the multi-trillion dollar telecommunications industry. However, even next generation 5G mobile communications is reaching practical frequency limits imposed by the high costs associated with operation at such short wavelengths. As a result, research by scientists a

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