In this episode of the Goeppert Mayer Gauge, we learn why Kanye would fund development of organinc materials that emit short wave infrared radiation (SWIR) and why Elon Musk would not.We have our very first guest, Prof. Justin Caram from UCLA,  who tells us about designing organic absorbers and emitters for SWIR applications, compares their performance to that of QD-based SWIR absorber/emitters, and discusses a variety of applications for these materials.  We get into some particle-in-a-box scaling relationships, which you can explore in the Jupyter notebook accompanying the episode https://foleylab.github.io/gmgauge/. Be sure to check out our SWIR-inspired playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6vfh4EnglzJrsF4pTnRu2T?si=9XMYSZRlTAesygTqZADbdQ