– Scientists have developed a new type of tiny, transparent chip that could improve the photo quality of smartphone cameras significantly.
– The chip is made from a 2D semiconductor material that is just a few atoms thick, making it transparent. It contains an array of over 10,000 pixel units that can adjust transparency levels selectively.
– When placed over a smartphone camera, the chip sensors ambient light and uses the pixel array to reduce glare and bright spots in images through selective opacity adjustment.
– In experiments, it helped reduce glare in photos taken with smartphone cameras, improving resolution and quality.
– The chip works with ambient light rather than requiring power-hungry lasers, and could make cheap smartphone cameras perform like higher-end, professional cameras.
– Researchers believe this technology could not only enhance photos but also enable new types of sensing applications in fields like autonomous vehicles, manufacturing quality control and more.
– It represents a new approach to light-based computing using ambient light that could make such technologies more practical and accessible.
Source: Live Science
