Comments on: ISO 25,000,000 anyone? Black Silicon

By: hex

hex — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:16:18 +0000

the first commercial application of that silicon would be optical communication – right now the receivers are quite poor so the signal has to be amplified, and noise is introduced as a result etc. etc. but with this, the potential would be to have much longer lines without any amplification noise – so expect your internet speeds to go up, not camera ISO =]

By: Edu

Edu — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:05:23 +0000

1.4 billion-pixel digital camera!!! wow!!
It is part of a telescope used to detect asteroids!
Here’s the link…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/6445463.stm

By: Gene

Gene — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:56:14 +0000

“…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.”

I’m guessing the 100-500x figure is somewhere in the infrared, as visible seems to be 2x. So no crazy high ISO camera, though it would be nice :)

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:23:12 +0000

Its been around for quite a while, but no one has actually been able to put it to use. you can bet that researchers for camera sensors have been looking at it. I hope they figure out how to make a high resolution sensor.

Its cheap to make, but from the description, it apparently requires a larger area to be efficient, so I doubt if it works in a 10MP camera, but low resolution sensord may work fine.

From 2001:

http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/10.11/01-silicon.html

By: mark

mark — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:33:16 +0000

No dought that it would be a military purpose technology at first (if it will exist at all). It could be too expensive, too complicate, probably it has go the quantum computer way.
So lets say CR2 :)))

By: Bubba

Bubba — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:33:37 +0000

Interesting. Thx for the link to the article. New site looks great btw.