This Chapter covers recent advances in Short Wavelength Infrared (SWIR), Medium Wave‐ length Infrared (MWIR) and Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR) materials and device technol‐ ogies for a variety of defense and commercial applications. Infrared technology is critical for military and security applications, as well as increasingly being used in many commercial products such as medical diagnostics...

Vendors of commercial database management system face many challenges in incorporating into their products innovative technologies developed in academia. Pragmatic considerat,ions and operational requirements can limit the viability of applying promising research. Technology leadership in commercial products is often the result of taking unconventional approaches rather than following “conventi...