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Graphene-based image sensor to enhance low-light photography
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 1:09 pm    Post subject: Graphene-based image sensor to enhance low-light photography Reply with quote

Graphene-based image sensor to enhance low-light photography

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... 1,000 times more sensitive to light than existing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) or charge-coupled device (CCD) camera sensors in addition to operating at much lower voltages, consequently using 10 times less energy.


PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 3:29 pm    Post subject: Re: Graphene-based image sensor to enhance low-light photogr Reply with quote

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... 1,000 times more sensitive to light than existing complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) or charge-coupled device (CCD) camera sensors in addition to operating at much lower voltages, consequently using 10 times less energy.


This is a misinterpretation of the original article published in Nature (http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n5/full/ncomms2830.html). On the one hand, it's not about sensitivity, it's about responsivity. Regarding the fact, that current silicon based photosensitive devices have a quantum efficiency of up to well over 80%, there's just no room for an increase of sensitivity by a factor of 1,000. So what is new to these graphene based sensors is a much higher responsivity, which you can understand as a gain of the produced electrical signal. And this is not 1,000 times higher than existing CMOS or CCD sensors, but 1,000 times higher than existing graphene based sensors - which used to have a fraction of the responsivity of common CCD/CMOS sensors.


PostPosted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 4:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Dennis! (I agree)