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This is super cool.

Excited to see the way this breakthrough will be absorbed into different industries.

Can anyone comment on the impact of this with regards to LIDAR tech?

It is probably not very useful for lidar, because the effect only works for UV wavelengths. At the normal eye-safe infrared wavelengths used for lidar the quantum efficiency of this type of detector is basically 0.

It does work well for general low light imaging and nightvision applications, you can get a black silicon sensor quite high QE (~80%-ish depending on what wavelength ranges you are interested in) commercially from https://www.sionyx.com/

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