Sentences with phrase «individual photodiode»

He wanted to drill 5,000 holes, one for each star, into a metal template and put it near the focal plane of the telescope, with an individual photodiode and integrated circuit behind each hole.

It was not clear whether Alturi liked this, but then he said: «I guess when you apply this analysis to the sensor of the camera, it will break down into complexes that are individual photodiodes, each of them distinguishing between just two states, on or off, but there will be no integrated entity — a complex — corresponding to the sensor.

Not exact matches

However, in 2010, an international team of researchers showed that Eve could hack the system by exploiting a weakness in the so - called avalanche photodiodes (APDs) used to detect the individual photons.