The military has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop detectors.
Over the years, Prof Crawley has co-founded multiple businesses, including the company BioScale to work towards developing biomolecular detectors.
After his early Venus discovery, Mr. Mayer developed detectors of increased sensitivity for use on radio telescopes, allowing him to measure temperatures of planets.
The scientists have developed ultra-sensitive electronic detectors for use in looking for such dark objects through an Australian telescope.
To avoid this problem, the collaboration have developed new detectors with interdigitised electrodes.
CARDE considered using a terminal guidance system to address the accuracy concerns, and developed several advanced infrared detectors for this role.
The bill, which the senator plans to submit to Congress this week, includes $250 million to develop more sensitive detectors and upgrade computer monitoring of shipments around the world.
The military has spent hundreds of millions trying to develop such detectors, with some success.
Considerable research and development of silicon materials occurred during the war to develop detectors of consistent quality.
Cornell has been developing super-sensitive detectors of infrared light.