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Students from the Alexander Dawson School in Boulder, Colorado explain the workings of a "dark detector" coated with the one of the world's darkest materials, a forest of carbon nanotubes that reflects almost no light across the visible and part of the infrared spectrum. Built at NIST's Boulder Laboratories by John Lehman and his collaborators in the NIST Optoelectronics Divison, the dark detector promises to advance many technologies such as optical communications, laser-based manufacturing, the conversion of solar energy into electricity, and the sensitivity of industrial and satellite-borne sensors.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• nanotechnology;
• carbon
• nanotubes;
• education;
• applied
• science