Savin's team managed to make germanium photodiodes that capture nearly all the infrared light that hits them. The study was published on 1 Jan 2025 in the journal Light: Science & Applications.

Detecting infrared light is critical in an enormous range of technologies, from remote controls to autofocus systems to self-driving cars and virtual reality headsets. That means there would be major ...

Last week, at the 2024 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, in San Francisco, imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, and its partners in the Belgian ...

Savin's team managed to make germanium photodiodes that capture nearly all the infrared light that hits them. 'The high performance was made possible by combining several novel approaches ...

For the last eight years, a team of researchers at Aalto University in Finland has been working to improve the efficiency of photodiodes, a type of infrared sensor that converts light into ...

Around 80% of the pixels on the image sensor incorporate two separate light-sensitive photodiodes. The signal from these is combined when capturing an image, but can be split during autofocussing ...