{"id":229364,"date":"2026-01-20T01:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/bioinspired-phototransistor-achieves-high-sensitivity-detection-of-low-contrast-targets"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T07:35:11","slug":"bioinspired-phototransistor-achieves-high-sensitivity-detection-of-low-contrast-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/bioinspired-phototransistor-achieves-high-sensitivity-detection-of-low-contrast-targets","title":{"rendered":"Bioinspired phototransistor achieves high-sensitivity detection of low-contrast targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioinspired-phototransistor-achieves-high-sensitivity-detection-of-low-contrast-targets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drawing inspiration from the remarkable adaptability of the human eye, researchers from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel phototransistor with tunable sensitivity.<\/p>\n<p>This breakthrough provides an efficient solution for detecting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-08-retina-photodiodes-advance-machine-vision.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">low-contrast targets<\/a> in complex visual environments, which is a critical challenge for advanced machine vision systems in applications such as precision guidance and smart surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>The results are published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41377-025-02051-1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Light: Science &amp; Applications<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing inspiration from the remarkable adaptability of the human eye, researchers from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel phototransistor with tunable sensitivity. This breakthrough provides an efficient solution for detecting low-contrast targets in complex visual environments, which is a critical challenge for advanced machine vision [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229364","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}