A fabric that thinks its a camera
JUL 08, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023490
CNET News : Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a fabric made of a mesh of light-sensitive fibers that collectively act like a rudimentary camera. The fibers, which each can detect two frequencies of light, produced signals that when amplified and processed by a computer reproduced an image of a smiley face near the mesh."This is the first time that anybody has demonstrated that a single plane of fibers, or ‘fabric,’ can collect images just like a camera but without a lens,” said Yoel Fink, an associate professor of materials science, who along with colleagues described the approach in a the journal Nano Letters. Related Link Exploiting Collective Effects of Multiple Optoelectronic Devices Integrated in a Single Fiber
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