Color Detectors (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Color Detectors

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this is an artist's representation of a conceptual design for the color detector, which uses thermoelectric structures with arrays of nanoscale wires that absorb different wavelengths of light based on their width.

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Harry Atwater and Kelly Mauser/Caltech

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