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Bug Eyes Inspire Practical Light, Sensor Designs

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 11, 2014 — The compound structure of a fly’s eye could become a blueprint for future sensors and light sources. A team from Pennsylvania State University is studying and using this structure — a hexagonal, convex pattern consisting of hundreds of ommatidia that produce a nearly 360° field of vision — to develop miniature, omnidirectional light-emitting devices and optical sensors. That wide field of view makes insect eyes “attractive for bioreplication as artificial sources of light,” the researchers wrote in a study. “We said, OK, we can make...Read full article

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    Published: September 2014
    Americaslight detectorsommatidiaOpticsPenn StatePennsylvania State UniversityResearch & TechnologySensors & DetectorsRaul J. Martin-PalmaLEDs

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