Dexter, Michigan--Rapid Prototype Engineering (RPE) and Design For Manufacturing (DFM) are two key infrared systems engineering capabilities that Dexter Research now offers its customers.
“This investment is consistent with the organizational innovation that won us recognition as A Top Fifty Companies To Watch In Michigan award by the Edward Lowe Foundation,” says Dexter Research President Robert Toth, Jr.
Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm presented the award recently.

It has been decades since the rest of the nation saw Michigan’s vital contribution to our national defense. But our deep, diverse, and dense manufacturing capabilities and research and development expertise provide an almost limitless potential to grow new jobs here in military-related business.

With the help of the Dexter Research Center Inc., soldiers in combat on the front lines may soon be able to remotely detect a biological attack - and exactly what chemical to protect themselves against - with the help of a portable sensor system.

Dexter's infrared sensors are used in a variety of applications: gas analysis, fire suppression, security systems, environmental monitoring and space exploration, to name a few.

Launched in 1977, Dexter evolved from defense research at the University of Michigan. For many years the company held a monopoly on infrared thermopile detectors and didn't need to promote itself. Yet industry changes brought new competitors and pressure from customers to reduce prices, resulting in flat sales from 2002 to 2004.

Under the leadership of President Robert S. Toth, Jr., Dexter Research Center enjoyed record growth and increased market share in 2005 as it met the challenge of global competitors and new and competitive priced products manufactured offshore.

Thanks to new products—including the world’s smallest infrared thermopile detector—aggressive marketing and industry-leading customer service, Dexter Research added 62 new customers from around the world and grew its revenue 22 per cent.

Announcing the new ST60 with Integrated Module. Our Motion Detection — Presence Sensor is targeted for high volume, cost sensitive, drop in applications, where the system designer is interested in a fully functional subsystem, with minimum cost and effort. The passive infrared sensor forms the heart of the system, requires little power to operate and meets or exceeds all industry standard measures for quality and consistency.

U.S. Congressman Tim Walberg (R-MI) announced today that funding for Dexter Research Center, Inc. was approved in the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill that recently passed the House. The bill will now go to the U.S. senate to be voted on as a part of the fiscal 2008 appropriations process.
“The Department of Defense must have the capability to respond to chemical and biological attacks, and this important project will increase the safety of our men and women in uniform,” Walberg said.

Sales of Dexter Research products increased thirty-three percent in Q1 and Q2 of 2007.
“This jump has been enabled by the recognition that Dexter Research is a volume manufacturer of the best infrared detectors in the world,” says company president Robert Toth, Jr.
“Despite the increase in volume, our products are 100 percent tested prior to shipping,” assuring our customers the highest quality and reliability. How good are we?” Toth asks. “We have reports of infrared detectors in the field still operating at 100 percent capacity over eighteen years.

Kurt Hochrein, the robotics executive who worked with 20th Century Fox to place Kawasaki Robots in the Steven Spielberg movie Minority Report, has been named Director of Customer Development for Dexter Research Center, Inc. Dexter Research is an industry leader in the innovative design and the volume manufacture of high quality, high output bismuth-antimony thin film and silicon-based radiation sensing thermopile detectors.

Business news stories sometimes seem reserved for burgeoning startups, but a Michigan manufacturer of global technology just broke a thirty-year sales record the hard way. Through innovation and organization, Dexter Research Center, Inc. followed two consecutive years of record sales with a chart-busting thirty-four percent increase in Q1 of 2007.

Not. Never happened. The motion sensing system depicted in the movie failed to stop the intruder.

On a quiet night, when no responsibilities intrude on your personal time, there are few movies more entertaining to see again than the 1999 release of Entrapment, starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Thermopile detectors convert thermal potential differences into electric potential differences for contact and non-contact temperature sensing and presence sensing. They are cheap, interchangeable, have standard connectors, and can measure a wide range of temperatures. Our designs lend themselves easily to analog and digital systems.

Dexter Research pioneered the affordable infrared thermopile detector. Our thermopile detectors are accurate with ±0.5°C or better. Dexter’s products are 100% tested prior to shipping and display a remarkable reliability-durability curve.

Dexter Research Center announces the availability of the ST120, a small thermopile detector that offers high output in a silicon-based chip. Developed with Dexter’s industry-leading internal optimization program, the ST120 is believed to outperform any competitor with same active area.

The ST120 Four Channel Silicon Thermopile

Dexter Research Center announces the availability of “the flat pack”. This surface mount package allows for a lower profile than standard TO-5 packaging, the new device is a single-channel silicon-based thermopile in a LCC package for surface mount assembly. The company believes it to be the world’s best surface mount thermopile.

Under the leadership of President Robert S. Toth, Jr., Dexter Research Center enjoyed record growth and increased market share in 2005 as it met the challenge of global competitors and new and competitive priced products manufactured offshore.

Thanks to new products—including the world’s smallest infrared thermopile detector—aggressive marketing and industry-leading customer service, Dexter Research added 62 new customers from around the world and grew its revenue 22 per cent.

Dexter Research Center, Inc. has once again chosen the Sensors Expo and Conference, June 5-7, to unveil its latest products, the ST120 and its Surface Mount Package. The event has attracted more than 40 additional exhibitors over last year.

The ST120 Four-Channel Silicon Thermopile

You’ll find them in fire suppression systems in US battle tanks, fighter jets and commercial oilrigs. They’ve flown on the Space Shuttle. They play a key role at exhaust emission testing centers, in greenhouse gardening and airplanes, in kitchen appliances and steel factories, ear thermometers and mine safety, weather forecasting and earth measurement. And soon they will be on their way to Mars.

Dexter Research Center announces the availability of its ST60 Micro and ST60R Micro silicon-based thermopile detectors. The ST60R Micro measures .161″ (4.09 mm) in diameter and is believed to be the world’s smallest infrared thermopile detector. The ST60 detector is also available in TO-5 and TO-18 packages, as well as a special TO-5 package that features a diffractive lens with a narrow field of view. Arrays of up to four elements are also possible in the TO-5 package.