- Our focus on wearable goggles which are utilized in the operating room to help oncologist in imaging cancerous tissue was included in several new outlets. Read much more about it here: WashU Outlook. Fox News. Bloomberg. BBC .
- Our imaging technologies have helped biologists in finding how polarization details are utilized as a communication funnel in sword tail fish. Read much more about it here: eRecord. Photonics. National Science Foundation. Locker Dome. World News. Futurity. and many more.
Solid condition imaging devices have grown to be the prevalent choice within the multi-big industry of photography. Consumer calls for high pixel count imaging sensors have set trends for small pixel pitch sensors, high signal-to-noise ratios, high dynamic range and color replication from the imaged scene amongst others. These trends have led to proliferation of imaging sensors within our lives that capture two qualities of sunshine, namely the intensity and also the wave length, and encode these details into perceptual amount of brightness and color. The 3rd fundamental property of sunshine, polarization, continues to be overlooked by solid condition imaging sensors partly because of the human lack of ability to discriminate and find out polarization information.
The study objective of our laboratory would be to investigate and develop new generation of optical sensors able to recording the 3 qualities of sunshine with low power, low noise and resolution imaging sensors. Polarization sensing is really a center theme within our laboratory so we concentrate on several key aspects, including nanofabrication of optical filters, advanced CMOS imaging sensor design, monolithic integration of CMOS imaging technology with nano-structured optical filters, image processing algorithms for division of focal plane polarization imaging sensors and applying polarization imaging sensor legitimate-time imaging of natural phenomena.