New Imaging Chip made from Solar Cell Research

1. aburke3
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    From WIRED blognetwork:

    

   "Graduate student Hsiang-Yu Chen was working on a new formula for solar cells when something went wrong. Instead of creating electricity when hit with light, the conductivity of the material she was working with changed. "

    "Thanks to this lucky mistake, a new breed of camera sensors that are cheaper, higher-resolution and have lower distortion could be on the horizon. Click through the gallery to learn how this new breakthrough works and tour the labs where the magic happens. "

   Full Article:

   http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/12/gallery_photodetector 

    

   -Andrew Burke 

   Posted 3 years ago #

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