LiDAR sensors are used in professional and scientific settings all the time, but why have them on a smartphone? Turns out, ...

Terahertz waves are a form of electromagnetic wave, like gamma-rays, X-rays, ultraviolet light, visible light, infrared light and radio waves (Fig. 1). On the frequency spectrum, terahertz waves ...

The research team led by Professor Hele Savin has developed a new light detector that can capture more than 96 percent of the photons covering visible, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.

The team has filed a patent application for the new light detector. The prototype detectors are currently being tested in imaging applications related to medicine and safety.

The detector can register incident light in just 40 picoseconds. “In contrast to other semiconductors like silicon or gallium arsenide, graphene can pick up light with a very large range of photon ...

The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared ...

Indeed, the nanostructure used in the new light detector is similar to that used by the team a couple of years ago in their record-high efficiency black silicon solar cells. The team filed a patent ...

Autonomous vehicles could be given extra awareness thanks to a unique light detecting device that can more accurately amplify weak signals reflected from faraway objects. Developed by engineers at the ...

The penetration depth of traditional confocal laser-scanning microscopy (LSM) systems is limited by light scattering. To avoid these limitations, multiphoton LSM uses a nonlinear fluorophore ...