Lightning-sparked fires can be a big deal: The Canadian wildfires of 2023 generated nearly 500 million metric tons of carbon emissions, and lightning-started fires burned 93% of the area affected.
Lightning sparked almost 60% of the wildfires—and those blazes accounted for 93% of the total area burned.
A new ultrathin photodetector from Duke University can sense light across the entire electromagnetic spectrum and generate a ...
Electrical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the fastest pyroelectric photodetector to date, which works by absorbing heat generated by incoming light. Capable of capturing light from the ...