by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
IRD Glass is an official BOROFLOAT® Distributor that is trusted by industry leading OEMs to process BOROFLOAT® into precision optical mirrors and other LiDAR components. If the story below is true, we’re likely to get real busy around here… The plan? Scan the...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
IRD Glass uses high performance hard materials and employs precision machining equipment to produce ceramic components and subassemblies that meet our clients’ exact specifications. Many hard ceramic parts we create have less than .0005” dimensional tolerance....
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The promise of nuclear power is enormous. It produces energy via nuclear fission rather than chemical burning, generating a huge amount of electricity while putting zero carbon into the atmosphere. It works constantly. On average, nuclear power plants produce energy...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The materials we work with last for a really, really long time. Sapphire, hard ceramics, glass. So it’s no surprise that scientists are finding ways to use them to store information that could be vital to future generations, from our scientific discoveries to...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Elon Musk, the madman-genius-engineer behind Palo Alto-based automaker Tesla, made big waves when he declared that “Anyone relying on lidar [for self-driving cars] is doomed. Doomed.” Tesla’s current vehicles use radar, GPS, maps, ultrasonic...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
A Chinese device called the ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is purported to emit a high-power laser beam that can incinerate you from over a mile away. Ouch! In 2015, the Chinese government dedicated 2 billion yuan to researching and developing compact laser devices of...
