Accident Could Lead To Better Digital Cameras

Dave Bullock (eecue) writes "Scientists at UCLA have accidentally created a material that will some day give us better, faster, cheaper, more flexible digital cameras. I toured their lab and shot a photo essay for Wired. Personally I'm looking forward to a quantum-dot embedded camera sensor someday soon. 'Graduate student Hsiang-Yu Chen was working on a new formula for solar cells when something went wrong. Instead of creating electricity when hit with light, the conductivity of the material she was working with changed. "The original purpose [was] to make a solar cell more efficient," says Chen. "However, during the research we found the solar cell phenomenon [had] disappeared." Instead, the test material showed high gain photoconductivity, indicating potential use as a photo sensor.'"

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Nice accident...

[oskard]

Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries - vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin

I like how they compare 3 things that have been unimaginably advantageous to the human race to something that will allow me to view better-quality porn.

Re:Nice accident...

[GuyverDH]

Dude...

As anyone who's ever viewed porn at higher resolutions / definition can attest, it doesn't make it better, it brings out every flaw in greater detail - making you wish you'd never upgraded....