STROBE Seminar: Dr. Peter Denes, LBNL
Seeing small things takes bright lights and great optics. But you still have to see something. This talk will discuss detectors for electron and x-ray microscopies: how they work, what are the challenges and where are the opportunities. The competition is intense: the human eye has ~108 ‘pixels’ and a dynamic range of ~104 and has a direct connection to a built-in neural processor). No camera today can match these specs (although we are getting close). The use of silicon as a sensing medium, together with the dramatic advances in microelectronics (‘Moore’s law’) has transformed how we record images. Is detection a solved problem?
Speaker
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Dr. Peter DenesProgram Lead of Detectors and Photon Science Development, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab