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Technology Turns Mobile Phones Into X-Ray Devices
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Mobile Phone X-Ray Device
While you may not be able to slip on a pair of X-ray glasses and see through clothes, researchers at the University of Technology at Dallas have been working to construct a chip that has the potential to turn your smartphone into a device that can see through paper, plastic, walls, wood and other materials.
The researchers are working with microchip technology and utilizing the “unused range in the electromagnetic spectrum” to make this X-ray technology a reality. The electromagnetic spectrum that the researchers are using is within the terahertz band that straddles the spectrum between microwave and infrared bands. Previously, the terahertz band was unavailable in consumer devices such as smartphones. Researchers developed sensors that will take images with signals transmitted with the terahertz range without needing to tap into the lenses within the smartphone itself.
As part of the project the CMOS-based chip will “detect frequencies in the terahertz band of the electromagnetic spectrum, without needing special lenses to work,” the researchers wrote in a report. What does this mean to the average user? That you could put this CMOS chip receiver into the back of your smartphone, effectively transforming it into a device that will allow you to see through objects.