Friday, May 11, 2012

Graphene sensors

The Economist has a fascinating article about how researchers are using graphene, interspersed with tiny dots of lead sulphide, to absorb light and produce electrons that can be converted into a signal. The cool thing about these proposed photodetectors is that they might be flexible, allowing many applications. They possibly could also be made very small and might even allow the creation of a "light transistor". 

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