Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and...
View ArticleSiemens Sets New Record for Wireless Data Transfer using White LEDs
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Siemens have broken their own record for wirelessly transmitting data over white LED light. They’ve now achieved rates of 500 megabits per second (Mbps), shattering...
View ArticleIBM Scientists Create Ultra-Fast Device Which Uses Light for Communication...
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists today unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that...
View ArticleResearcher: Cell phones could double as night vision devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Call it Nitelite: The newest app for cell phones might be night vision.
View ArticleNanotech discovery could lead to breakthrough in infrared satellite imaging...
Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new nanotechnology-based "microlens" that uses gold to boost the strength of infrared imaging and could lead to a new generation of...
View ArticleLooking to leap forward on laser and photodetector technologies
A team of Arizona State University researchers will get support from the U.S. Department of Defense to aid development of the next generations of lasers and infrared photodetectors.
View ArticleSingle quantum dot nanowire photodetectors
Moving a step closer toward quantum computing, a research team in the Netherlands recently fabricated a photodetector based on a single nanowire, in which the active element is a single quantum dot...
View ArticleElectron resonances could greatly enhance the response of optical chip...
Optical chips are the latest innovation in silicon technology with the potential to revolutionize telecommunications. Their operation relies on several key components, including light-emitting devices,...
View ArticleResearch group creates highly sensitive photodetector from graphene and...
(Phys.org) -- Researchers in Spain have succeeded in building a photodetector that is a billion times more sensitive than other such detectors based on graphene and could herald the use of graphene...
View ArticleCloak of invisibility: Engineers use plasmonics to create an invisible...
A team of engineers at Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania has for the first time used "plasmonic cloaking" to create a device that can see without being seen - an invisible machine that...
View ArticleA new phase in reading photons: Photodetector beats the quantum limit by a...
A new photodetector can cleanly discriminate among four states, not just the standard two states of binary logic.
View ArticleUltrafast photodetector could lead to increased fiber optical broadband speeds
Photodiodes, or photodetectors, are key components of fiber-optical broadband networks: they convert light to electrical signals. The inability to efficiently fabricate these detectors directly onto...
View ArticleNanotube photodetector built
Researchers at Rice University and Sandia National Laboratories have made a nanotube-based photodetector that gathers light in and beyond visible wavelengths. It promises to make possible a unique set...
View ArticleBug's eye inspires hemispherical digital camera that delivers unmatched field...
Inspired by the complex fly eye, an interdisciplinary team led by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University has developed a hemispherical digital camera...
View ArticleResearchers use light projector and single-pixel detectors to create 3-D images
(Phys.org) —Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge have devised a unique method of capturing three-dimensional images. As described in a paper published in the...
View ArticleGraphene photodetector integrated into computer chip
The novel material graphene and its technological applications are studied at the Vienna University of Technology. Now scientists succeeded in combining graphene light detectors with semiconductor chips.
View ArticleSelf-powered wireless light detectors
Light detectors are used extensively in daily life as brightness sensors and as receivers for remote control devices in electrical gadgets, for example. However, operating these detectors requires...
View ArticleA new method to detect infrared energy using a nanoporous ZnO/n-Si photodetector
Experiments aimed at devising new types of photodetectors have been triggered by the increasing use of optoelectronic devices in personal electronics, cameras, medical equipment, computers and by the...
View ArticleBiomimetic photodetector 'sees' in color
(Phys.org) —Rice University researchers have created a CMOS-compatible, biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red, green and blue light in much the same way the human eye does.
View ArticleNew semiconductor device could lead to better photodetectors
(Phys.org) —UCLA researchers have developed a perovskite photodetector that could reduce manufacturing costs and improve the quality of medical and commercial light sensors.
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