[Avid-L2] Re: OT: Quantum Dots???

It's bad enough how the presence of a camera already alters reality. Now we'll have the throw the Heisenberg uncertainty principle into the equation. Just by "imaging a scene", note I didn't say taping or filming, the camera person/nuclear physicist will be altering reality just by observing. And what happens when the camera is on a rocket passing by the earth at half the speed of light shooting a person on the earth turning on a flashlight? Will I be older or younger at the end of the take? Oh man I'm having some Berkeley flash backs, the physics kind not the other stuff that comes in dots. Oh well it's time to pet Schrodinger's Cat. ;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao <wilsonchao@...> wrote:
>
> From today's NYTimes:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/technology/22quantum.html
>
> Quantum dots are semiconductors and can perform functions now done by
> traditional silicon-based semiconductors, such as light-to-electrical
> conversion (CCD sensors) or electricity-to-light conversion (LEDs).
> Their advantages include:
>
> * Tiny size, hence the "dots" moniker
>
> * High quantum efficiency, i.e higher sensitivity in image sensors
>
> * Quantum "tuneability"; manipulation of their physical
> characteristics allows precise tuning of their quantum energy levels,
> ie. colors of LEDs
>
> Quantum dots are only now coming to market as they haven't yet been
> successfully manufactured in commercial quantities, but they're a Next
> Big Thing.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:30 AM, David Dawkins <dawk2@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1597383/quantum-film-replace-cmos
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot
> > Its still pretty much Greek to me.
> >
> > Wilson?
> >
> > DD
>

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