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| 1800 | IR radiation Sir W. Herschel |
| 1821 | Thermoelectric effect Seebeck |
| 1829 | Thermocouple G. Nobili |
| 1833 | Thermopile Macedonio Melloni |
| 1836 | Optical pyrometer Becquerel |
| 1873 | Photo-detection (Selenium) Smith |
| 1884 | IR radiation law Boltzmann |
| 1902 | Photoconductivity effect Bose |
| 1917 | Lead sulphide Case |
| 1933 | Lead sulphide (galena) Kutzsher |
| 1940 | TI2S Cashman |
| 1942 | Golay cell Golay—Queen Mary College |
| 1948 | Transistor Bardeen-Brattain-Shockley |
| 1950s | PbS, PbSe, PbTe T. Moss RRSE |
| 1959 | HgCdTe W. Lawson, J. Putley |
| 1960s | Ge: X, InSb |
| 1969 | CCD Boyle-Smith (Bell Labs) |
| 1970s | PbSnTe/HgCdTe, Si: X Lincoln Labs, SBRCHughes, Honeywell, Rockwell, Mullard |
| 1973 | Common modules Night vision Lab |
| 1975 | IR Fly Eye Smart Sensors: C. Corsi, Elettronica SpA |
| 1978 | Si: X/CCD/PtSi/CCDHgCdTe/CCD RCA Princeton Lab W. F. Kosonocky, F. Shepherd D. Barbee-F. Milton-J. Steckel |
| 1980s | HgCdTe SPRITE InGaAs QWIP T. Elliott RSE, F. Capasso L. Esaki, B. FLevine, M. Razeghi, L. J. Kozlowski |
| 1990s | Pyroelectric FPAs/MicroBolometer FPAs/Multi-colour FPAs/Advanced FPAs RRSE-BAE,. R. A. Wood, J. L. Tissot, P. R. Norton, A. Rogalski, H. Zogg S. D. Gunapala, D. Z. Ting |
| 2000 | MEMS FPAs—Cantilever IR Nanotubes/Nanowires B. Coole, S. R. Hunter, X. Zhang, J. M. Xu, S. Huang, Y. Zhao, J. Xu, Maurer, G. Jiang, D. J. Zook |
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