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Better Thermal Imaging Thanks to a Small Device

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The Silicon Thermal Transistor originated from foundational research at Yale University, where a new active thermal transduction mechanism for infrared sensing was developed and later published in Nature Sensors. AmpVisions is building upon this research to advance scalable silicon technology for intelligent thermal sensing.

Published by Yale on June 25, 2026

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From Device to Architecture

The future of machine perception is inherently multimodal

Machines are becoming the first interpreters of thermal information

Thermal sensing has the opportunity to become a core modality

Realizing that opportunity begins with rethinking the underlying device architecture

We are building a silicon-native device architecture for thermal sensing