A new remote temperature sensor
19 September 2011
Researchers at Oxford University and the University of Warwick have developed a form of crystal that can deliver highly accurate temperature readings, down to individual milli-kelvins, over a very broad range of temperatures: -120 to +680 degrees centigrade.
See
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/research_gives_cry...