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SWIR sensors cover the 400- to 2000-nm range

Feb. 17, 2025

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SWIR camera delivers automatic image correction

Feb. 7, 2025

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Position-sensitive detectors offer 20-µm position detection error

Advanced Photonix, A Div of OSI Optoelectronics

Feb. 1, 2025

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2k and 4k line scan cameras integrate shading correction

Basler AG

Jan. 24, 2025

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Line scan camera delivers maximum line rate of 1 MHz

Teledyne DALSA

Jan. 10, 2025

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Professor Hele Savin (left) and her group used the Micronova micro- and nanofabrication center at Aalto University to fabricate their germanium infrared photodiodes.

Detectors & Imaging

Black germanium boosts infrared photodiode responsivity

Sally Cole Johnson

Feb. 19, 2025

Researchers create a germanium infrared photodiode that’s 35% more responsive at 1.55 µm—a common wavelength for telecommunications—than its other germanium and indium gallium...

Lead researchers Dr. Song Wang (left), a research scientist at SMART DiSTAP, and Dr. Yangyang Han (right), a senior postdoctoral associate at SMART DiSTAP.

Bio&Life Sciences

First-of-its-kind chromatic sensor detects plant distress

Justine Murphy

Feb. 17, 2025

It’s not always easy to tell if a plant is dehydrated, and sometimes it’s too late to save it. But a sensor designed by an international team of scientists detects distress in...

Gii: A pure, porous three-dimensional carbon nanostructure poised to revolutionize sensing.

Detectors & Imaging

Breakthrough material for broadband photodetectors: Gii

Des Gibson

Feb. 6, 2025

A sustainable carbon nanomaterial “Gii” is poised to revolutionize broadband photodetectors because it can absorb the full spectrum of light—from ultraviolet to infrared.

Detectors & Imaging

Ultrafast cameras get next-gen high-quantum-efficiency, low-noise CMOS image sensors

Phil Brown

Jan. 29, 2025

A novel structure design within a photodiode creates drift fields to increase the velocity of signal electrons that allows them to be swept out of the photodiode and sampled much...