Bioinspired Sensors
New camera gives surgeons a butterfly’s-eye view of cancer
Cancer lurking in tissue could be more easily found when looking through a butterfly’s eye. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a surgical camera inspired by the eye of the…
2017 IEEE ISCAS Best Paper Award
ECE ILLINOIS visiting scholar Nimrod Missael Garcia Hernandez along with Associate Professor Viktor Gruev won two Best Paper Awards at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). These distinctions include the Best Paper Award in the Sensory Circuits and Systems track, and most impressively…
National Geographic Special on Bio-inspired Sensors
National Geographic documentary on bioinspired technology featured our work on polarization imaging and its applications for early cancer detection.
Bioinspired Polarization Sensors
We have designed an imaging sensor inspired by the visual system of mantis shrimp. These flamboyant creatures are capable of capturing 16 spectral channels and 6 polarization channels. We have mimicked the polarization sensing capabilities by combining metallic nano structures with an…
