Smarter
wearable sensor
for everyday fitness monitoring
Smarter
wearable sensor
for everyday fitness monitoring
Developing new capabilities
A new class of miniaturized infrared light sources.
Emitter Development
The emitter is the core of the BRIGHTIR technology. 4K-MEMS develops a thermal infrared emitter chip designed to be compact, efficient, and implemented with high volume manufacturing processes.
From emitter to functional sensing platform.
Sensor Development
BRIGHTIR turns breakthrough IR emission into integrated sensing prototypes, starting with cell-culture and skin-phantom validation on the path toward future non-invasive metabolic sensing.
Adapting the sensing platform to different needs.
Sensor Testing
A single emitter technology can support multiple sensing configurations depending on the target application. BRIGHTIR explores variants of the core sensor design to address distinct use cases across environmental monitoring and health-related measurements.
BrightIR
About the project
Infrared light encodes chemical information invisible to the naked eye. The concentration of CO2 in the air we breathe, the composition of biological fluids, the presence of trace compounds in the environment: all of these leave a distinct fingerprint in the infrared spectrum.
Reading that fingerprint today requires instruments that are large, costly, and generally confined to specialized lab settings. Infrared light sources in particular have lagged behind in miniaturization and cost reduction, limiting the scalability and accessibility of the technology.
BRIGHTIR directly addresses this gap. We are developing ultra-compact infrared emitters, with improved efficiency, and a scalable manufacturing path enabling high volume low cost production. The goal is to create portable, scalable, and low cost sensors making infrared-based chemical sensing ubiquitous, thereby opening the door to new possibilities in wellness monitoring and environmental sensing.
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