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May 31, 2017
Researchers develop the first broadband image sensor array based on graphene-CMOS integration
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, mobile phones, quantum physics
Over the past 40 years, microelectronics have advanced by leaps and bounds thanks to silicon and complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, enabling computing, smartphones, compact and low-cost digital cameras, as well as most of the electronic gadgets we rely on today.
However, the diversification of this platform into applications other than microcircuits and visible light cameras has been impeded by the difficulty of combining non-silicon semiconductors with CMOS.
IFCO researchers have now overcome this obstacle, showing for the first time the monolithic integration of a CMOS integrated circuit with graphene, resulting in a high-resolution image sensor consisting of hundreds of thousands of photodetectors based on graphene and quantum dots (QD). They incorporated it into a digital camera that is highly sensitive to UV, visible and infrared light simultaneously. This has never before been achieved with existing imaging sensors. In general, this demonstration of monolithic integration of graphene with CMOS enables a wide range of optoelectronic applications, such as low-power optical data communications and compact and ultra sensitive sensing systems.
May 31, 2017
Holographic Learning Hits Classrooms
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: education, holograms
Private companies enter the conquest of space. Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos are some of the examples of the “New Space” era.
May 31, 2017
First Look: Behind-the-scenes with DragonflEye
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: biotech/medical
Researchers from Draper and Howard Hughes Medical Institute performed DragonflEye flight tests at Janelia Research Campus. http://bit.ly/2m2STa1
May 31, 2017
An Atheist’s Perspective on the Rise of Christian Transhumanism
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: robotics/AI, singularity, transhumanism, virtual reality
A new article on #transhumanism and religion that’s worth reading:
Transhumanists are a group of people who prefer using science and technology to improve the human life. According to Zoltan Istvan, a declared atheists and key leader in the transhumanists movement, “Transhumanism is not a competition. It is simply a mode of being that embraces evolving the human being with science, reason and technology.”
The recent development in the transhumanism movement has seen the colonization of a few groups of religious people, who call themselves religious transhumanists. This group advocates using science, technology and religion to improve the human being. According to Zoltan, in the 21st Century, the formal religion will soon have no choice but to evolve and blend with the advancement in science and technology. Invention of churches in virtual reality, Robot pastors saving Artificial Intelligence through Christ’s redemption and even a Jesus Singularity are all soon going to be an important pillar in the religious movement and America’s future in general.
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May 31, 2017
NASA announces historic mission to finally ‘touch the sun’
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: physics, space
CHICAGO — NASA is revealing new details Wednesday about its first-ever mission to fly into the sun’s atmosphere.
The Solar Probe Plus will be the first spacecraft to fly directly into the sun’s atmosphere.
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May 31, 2017
7 Big Tech Trends That Are Changing the Way We Make Things
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, robotics/AI
Manufacturing is dirty, dull, and outmoded. It’s a slow-moving industry stuck in the past as new technologies out of Silicon Valley threaten to upend it. Stereotypes are fun, and misleading.
Let’s not forget manufacturing is the industry that made the modern age.
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