Scientists have developed an imaging chip that could equip future smartphones with"Superman-inspired" X-ray vision — albeit operating within a much more limited range than the caped Kryptonian superhero.
It took 15 years of work — and an improvement in pixel performance by 100 million times — to make the chip small enough to fit in a mobile device, the researchers said in a statement. In the future, smartphones equipped with the chip may be capable of detecting the contents of envelopes or packages, or could be used to find studs, wires or cracked pipes behind walls."We designed the chip without lenses or optics so that it could fit into a mobile device.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.Instead, the imager chip uses 300 GHz signals in the millimeter-wave band of the electromagnetic spectrum. These sit between the microwave and infrared bands and are considered safe for humans.—Breakthrough 6G antenna could lead to high-speed communications and holograms