I mentioned this in the hijacked thread also !
Black Silicon
Its another silicon "photon multiplier" effect technology that apparently works with existing silicon devices.
Home page at
http://www.sionyx.com
Interesting claim here :
http://www.sionyx.com/arrays.html
"SiOnyx's shallow junction photonics technology is poised to redefine silicon based imaging.
The SiOnyx laser process dramatically enhances silicon's detector response by a factor of 100 or more enabling 1µm2 SiOnyx Black Silicon pixels that produce more signal than 36µm2 traditional silicon pixels."
So this will yield high SNR imaging sensors that will be ideal for astronomy.
I just dont quite understand why we havent seen anything in the last 2 years that they have been making these claims and supposedly having test devices working that have come off standard silicon device production machines.
I wait !