Towards a transparent, flexible, scalable and disposable image sensor using thin-film luminescent concentrators

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4796-4810

  Koppelhuber, Alexander ^a   Bimber, Oliver ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIGHT TRANSPORT; LINE-SCAN CAMERAS; LOW COSTS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUMINESCENCE; TRANSDUCER; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; TRANSDUCERS;

ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 84874546161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.004796     Document Type: Article

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