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infrared ray

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Noun1.infrared rayinfrared ray - a ray of infrared radiation; produces a thermal effect (as from an infrared lamp)
heat ray - a ray that produces a thermal effect

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To create the permanent tags, a laser bombards the produce with infrared rays, says the inventor, Greg Drouillard.
When exposed to infrared rays, the quantum dots absorbed the light and gave up electrons, generating a current.
Gamma rays are the most energetic of all forms of electromagnetic radiation, but as an object emitting them cools, it radiates waves of lower energy: X-rays, ultraviolet radiation, visible light, infrared rays and, at the lowest range of the energy spectrum, radio.
 
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