Sentence examples for light collector from inspiring English sources

Instead of silicon, InVisage uses a layer of quantum dots as a light collector.

Clouds refract the moonlight that is supposed to be magnified in the Interstellar Light Collector in Tucson, Ariz., a giant contraption meant to use moonlight to cure disease.

This enables us to use a solid-state imager to take focal surface images in the Ashra light collector.

For the first time we optimize the shape of a hexagonal light collector using quadratic and cubic Bézier curves.

But even with a bigger photodetector area, silicon still isn't the best light collector: it registers less than half of the photons that hit it.

This procedure has been employed to study the optical characteristics of the 3.5 m diameter light collector of the TACTIC Imaging telescope.

The microstructure of their cells, with its spherical light collectors, resembles what goes on inside a moth's eyes.

A machine that sprayed a single layer of atoms onto a substrate was located one lab bench away from a 3-D printer; people designing nanoscale structures can watch as their nearly invisible creations gradually become light collectors that look like shiny black tiles, which technicians will insert into a 3-D-printed solar-generator chassis the size of a chemistry textbook.

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Reflective light collectors with hexagonal entrance and exit apertures are frequently used in front of the focal-plane camera of a very-high-energy gamma-ray telescope to increase the collection efficiency of atmospheric Cherenkov photons and reduce the night-sky background entering at large incident angles.

Common light sources used in firearm reflector sights include battery powered lights, fiber optic light collectors, and even tritium capsules.