Researchers at the University of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have created a hemispherical camera using an array of single-crystalline silicon detectors and electronics in a stretchable, interconnected mesh-an advance that they say may improve camera designs and enable bionic eyes. "Conformally wrapping surfaces with stretchablernsheets of optoelectronics provides a practical route for integrating well-developed planar device technologies onto complex curvilinear objects," said John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at Illinois. The work is described in the Aug. 7, 2008 issue of the journal Nature.
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