{"id":200685,"date":"2024-12-03T09:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-has-use-in-every-stage-of-real-estate-development-hpi-execs-say"},"modified":"2024-12-03T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T15:23:25","slug":"ai-has-use-in-every-stage-of-real-estate-development-hpi-execs-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/ai-has-use-in-every-stage-of-real-estate-development-hpi-execs-say","title":{"rendered":"AI has use in every stage of real estate development, HPI execs say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-has-use-in-every-stage-of-real-estate-development-hpi-execs-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do motion detectors, self-driving cars, chemical analyzers and satellites have in common? They all contain detectors for infrared (IR) light. At their core and besides readout electronics, such detectors usually consist of a crystalline semiconductor material.<\/p>\n<p>Such materials are challenging to manufacture: They often require extreme conditions, such as a very high temperature, and a lot of energy. Empa researchers are convinced that there is an easier way. A team led by Ivan Shorubalko from the Transport at the Nanoscale Interfaces laboratory is working on miniaturized IR <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/detectors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">detectors<\/a> made of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/colloidal+quantum+dots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">colloidal quantum dots<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The words \u201cquantum dots\u201d do not sound like an easy concept to most people. Shorubalko explains, \u201cThe properties of a material depend not only on its chemical composition, but also on its dimensions.\u201d If you produce tiny particles of a certain material, they may have different properties than larger pieces of the very same material. This is due to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+effects\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum effects<\/a>, hence the name \u201cquantum dots.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do motion detectors, self-driving cars, chemical analyzers and satellites have in common? They all contain detectors for infrared (IR) light. At their core and besides readout electronics, such detectors usually consist of a crystalline semiconductor material. Such materials are challenging to manufacture: They often require extreme conditions, such as a very high temperature, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,48,1617,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}