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Optics: Electronic eyeballs

Takao Someya1

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The ability to fabricate silicon optoelectronic devices on a curved surface will lead to imaging systems with exceptional characteristics. This innovative technology will find diverse applications.

All animals have curved imagers for their eyes. By contrast, artificial vision systems such as digital and video cameras have to rely on flat image-recording surfaces.

  1. Takao Someya is in the Quantum-Phase Electronics Center, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
    Email: someya@ap.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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