Every time a smartphone snaps a photo, millions of tiny light detectors capture the scene and then ferry all that raw data across the chip to a separate processor for storage and number-crunching.

A new crop of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) detectors is now available. Gilson has introduced its 171 and 172 Diode Array Detectors for analytical and preparative HPLC applications.

A research team led by Pasquale Scarlino at EPFL has built a small, tunable detector capable of sensing individual microwave photons and converting them into measurable electrical current. The device ...