When the Air France Concorde Flight 4590 was taking off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport in July of 2000, it ran over a piece of debris that had been left on the runway by another plane.

The device is extremely fast in turning on – 20ps has been measured when hit by a femtosecond laser pulse. [Ed: an earlier version of this article incorrectly stated ’20ns’] It has a stack of two Co ...

The circuit was designed to create a detection scheme with reference to light energy sources. Photo Detector – a device that detects and senses light and radiant energy which uses the principle of ...

The optical anti-matter imager with the 60 photo sensors taken from mobile phones. “For AEgIS to work, we need a detector with incredibly high spatial resolution, and mobile camera sensors have pixels ...

Leti, an institute of CEA-Tech, based in Grenoble,France, has announced the prototype development of highly miniaturized, portable optical sensors for chemical detection and analysis of gases. The ...

Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution. This new device can pinpoint ...