Organic-based polarisation detector promises fast measurement with low error/ R ilevatore di polarizzazione a base organica promette misurazione veloce con basso errore. Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Joseph Cotellessa The arrangement of detector films and laser in the North Carolina team’s prototype device. LP is a polarising film, while detector films OPV1 and 2 have films oriented by straining the PV film; OPV3 is unstrained. They believe that devices based on their technology could be faster and more accurate than current polarisation measurement techniques, which use devices based on silicon technology. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a way to use light-sensitive conducting organic polymers to detect and measure the polarisation of light. Polarisation is determined by the direction in which the electrical component of the electromagnetic field we perceive as light oscillates. Plane-polarised
