A group of scientists from the University of Toronto have succeeded in developing light sensors which could help overcome the limitations faced by digital cameras in dim light circumstances. So far, the digital cameras have suffered under poor lighting conditions and a major reason is that the image sensor chips inside the camera gather only a single electron worth of current for each photon that strikes the pixel. The latest developed light sensor uses a process called the multi-exciton generation (MEG).

Inside a digital camera, the MEG on a single photon can do wonders for an image clicked in dim lighting. Sadly, there isn’t anything else reported on the research but once the electronic giants become aware of this achievement, it would be us benefiting with better equipped cameras that could even lighten up the dark.

Via: UToronto462211