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Feb 25, 2013

This brand new sensor is made of a transparent polymer film which is embedded with many very tiny fluorescent particles that absorb a certain wavelength of light. The polymer is well-known as a luminescent concentrator, while it lets most light pass right through (thus the transparent bit), it spreads the rest of it within the movie。

This brand new breed of image sensor is being created by experts atKevinSensorUniversityinLinz,Austriawhich may sometime revolutionize the way that we take photos. Unlike the representative image sensor we’re used to see, this new brand new one is a small, flexible, transparent sheet.

The sensor

Then uses a series of optical New sensors located its edge to pick up that scattered light and re-create a coarse image by deciding where each ray entered the movie based on its brightness.

You could read all of the fascinating technical details over on The Optical Society’s website, but the basic premise is that, by stacking several layers of this material together, the researchers believe they can create a legitimate image sensor — maybe even a color sensor using separate RGB layers.

At the present time, the black and white images the sensor is producing aren’t anything to write others’ home about, but provide them a few more years and you may be composing your shot via a very literal live view in an all-new form factor digital camera.