Abdel K. Ruvalcaba Perez

Abdel Karim Ruvalcaba Perez is an R&D optical system engineer at ams OSRAM Group and a Ph.D. student in physics at Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany).

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Detectors & Imaging

Photodiodes can help save apples and the planet

Food loss and waste are serious problems for mankind and for the planet, but low-cost sensors can assess fruit quality along the value chain.