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In addition to using ions to modulate the electrical behavior of the device, the response to light is intensity dependent, much like biological photoreceptors.
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IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2023
Retinitis pigmentosa is a debilitating disease that causes the death of photoreceptor cells and leads to vision loss.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Animals use eyes — a complex organ of lenses and photoreceptors — to gain a detailed picture of the world around them, including the direction of light.
—Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
Per Hanley and his co-authors, different animal species possess unique sets of photoreceptors that are sensitive to a wide range of wavelengths, from ultraviolet to the infrared, dependent on each animal's specific ecological needs.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
Its job is to catch errant photons which photoreceptors didn’t manage to absorb the first time, reflecting those light particles back onto the retina a second time.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Science Advances While this CMOS sensor arrangement does mimic the partial UV sensitivity of the layered photoreceptor cells in xuthus’ eyes, the real magic in the UIUC chip comes from a layer of perovskite crystal deposited on the sensor’s surface.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
The photoreceptors appear to be responsive to light in preliminary tests.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
The tiny chip sits behind the retina, the part of the eye that contains the photoreceptor cells that respond to the light of the world by triggering electric pulses in other cells.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2015
IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2023
Retinitis pigmentosa is a debilitating disease that causes the death of photoreceptor cells and leads to vision loss.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
Animals use eyes — a complex organ of lenses and photoreceptors — to gain a detailed picture of the world around them, including the direction of light.
—Quanta Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
Per Hanley and his co-authors, different animal species possess unique sets of photoreceptors that are sensitive to a wide range of wavelengths, from ultraviolet to the infrared, dependent on each animal's specific ecological needs.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 Jan. 2024
Its job is to catch errant photons which photoreceptors didn’t manage to absorb the first time, reflecting those light particles back onto the retina a second time.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Science Advances While this CMOS sensor arrangement does mimic the partial UV sensitivity of the layered photoreceptor cells in xuthus’ eyes, the real magic in the UIUC chip comes from a layer of perovskite crystal deposited on the sensor’s surface.
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
The photoreceptors appear to be responsive to light in preliminary tests.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2023
The tiny chip sits behind the retina, the part of the eye that contains the photoreceptor cells that respond to the light of the world by triggering electric pulses in other cells.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2015
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photoreceptor
noun
pho·to·re·cep·tor
-ˈsep-tər 
: a receptor for light stimuli
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