Read this last night on news.google.com<\/p>\n
taken from:\u00a0http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/245052\/1000-times-more-sensitive-to-light-how-graphene-camera-sensors-could-revolutionize-photography<\/a><\/p>\n Graphene really has so many potential uses and this one in particular sounds very interesting<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You probably aren’t too familiar with graphene, but you soon will be. Basically, it’s a two-dimensional arrangement of carbon atoms fit together like a honeycomb. Each sheet is just one-atom thick, giving it a structural integrity that makes for the\u00a0the world’s strongest material<\/a>. It also has some pretty magical properties that are perfect for tomorrow’s electronics.<\/p>\n Not only is graphene extremely flexible, durable, and conductive to electricity, but it also possesses the unique ability to “absorb light over a very broad wavelength range,”\u00a0notes<\/a>ExtremeTech<\/a><\/em>. With some minor nanostructural changes and the addition of a transistor, graphene can help us see things today’s best optics can’t \u2014 even in near-total darkness.<\/p>\n Researchers in Singapore have now tapped graphene’s superior imaging capabilities to build a camera sensor that’s 1,000 times more sensitive to light than those found in today’s CMOS or CCD camera sensors. Better yet, the graphene sensor consumes about 10 times less energy, and will reportedly be five times cheaper to produce.<\/p>\n