This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Michael Zhang · Feb 25, 2013
Lenses and sensors weren’t the only camera components miniaturized and dumbed down when digital photography jumped over into the world of smartphones: flashes did too. In order to fit everything into a tiny package, smartphone makers have largely opted for LED flashes in their phones rather than the bigger and bulkier xenon flashtubes found in proper digital cameras (a notable exception is the Nokia PureView 808). That may soon change.
Scientists in Singapore have developed a new capacitor that may lead to more powerful xenon flash units replacing the LED flashes found in consumer smartphones.The revolutionary capacitor was created by researchers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU). While traditional capacitors are too big and bulky for slim digital cameras, the new design uses multi-layered polymer and is at least four times smaller and several times faster than existing capacitors.
Professor Lee Pooi See (left) and Xenon Technologies CEO Jack Tuen, holding the new capacitor
In order to push the technology out into the world of consumer smartphone cameras, the university has partnered with Xenon Technologies, the world’s largest xenon flash maker. XT CEO Jack Tuen says that the capacitor will be a breakthrough in the …
By: Michael Zhang
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