Researchers develop flexible, transparent image sensor

Researchers at the Institute of Computer Graphics at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria, have developed a way to capture images on a flexible sheet of plastic. Unlike traditional image sensors that use circuits and other internal structures to develop an image, this new solution is totally transparent.

This is not a simple piece of plastic well. The sensor is a polymer film (luminescent concentrator) containing a plurality of fluorescent particles that absorb the specific wavelength of light. It then transmits this light at a longer wavelength optical sensors on the side of the sheet, which captures all this, reconstruct an image to grayscale.

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