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.