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jmvdigital

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« on: October 12, 2008, 11:07:00 am »

Unlike that recent story about the "the dizittification engine" this is real technology that will have an impact on photographers (a good one at that), eventually changing our assumptions about light capture and it's constant comparison to film. Imagine a sensor that is 100x more sensitive to light?! Wow.  

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Black silicon has since been found to have extreme sensitivity to light. It is now on the verge of commercialization, most likely first in night vision systems.

“We have seen a 100 to 500 times increase in sensitivity to light compared to conventional silicon detectors,” said James Carey, a co-founder of SiOnyx who worked on the original experiments as a Harvard graduate student.

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Dr. Mazur is an investor in SiOnyx and chairman of its scientific advisory board. As a result of his research, a number of academic and corporate research groups are still exploring the material, which absorbs about twice as much visible light as normal silicon and has the ability to detect infrared light that is invisible to the current generation of silicon detectors.

In the future, the low cost and higher sensitivity of black silicon may also make it a contender in the multibillion-dollar digital camera and video markets, an area currently dominated by silicon and charge-coupled-device sensors.

Read more via NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/business...ml?ref=business
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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2008, 12:10:16 pm »

I hate to be a pedant, but silicone is what you use for breast implants, not digital camera sensors.

 

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« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2008, 02:37:47 pm »

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I hate to be a pedant, but silicone is what you use for breast implants, not digital camera sensors.


This is silicon, not sillycone enhancement material.

 

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« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2008, 08:40:05 pm »

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This is silicon, not sillycone enhancement material.

 

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« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2008, 09:13:13 pm »

Lol. Oops.

But seriously, doesn't anyone else find this to be an amazing technological discovery? Right now, we're pushing the limits of current tech with mainly software attempts at massaging noise and data.
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