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Small enough for a regular phone, bright enough to light up the room

A new Xenon flash that is compact enough to fit into some of smallest

phones may provide a brighter future for their owners who just can't seem to

properly light their dim-looking photos.

The slim-phone-friendly capacitor that's still able to store enough energy for

a Xenon flash was developed by scientists from Nanyang Technological

University (NTU) and being produced by Xenon Technologies.

"This project will yield a breakthrough solution for the digital imaging

industry, which will be the world's smallest Xenon flash," said Xenon

Technologies CEO Jack Tuen in a press release.

"Our customers and consumers at large constantly demand for a proper

Xenon flash which can fit into increasingly smaller and beautiful form factor

mobile devices. This is the answer which fulfils that need."

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Examining the Xenon technology

With the goal of lighting the way to better-looking photos, this Xenon flash

on a diet is made from polymers layered together and it contains a capacitor

that is at least four times smaller than current electrolytic capacitors.

"The multi-layered polymer capacitor is also able to deliver the same

electricity charge needed to power high-intensity Xenon flash light matching

those found in digital cameras," said the school in a press release.

This advancement is thanks to the two and a half years of work of the

inventor and associate professor Lee Pooi See and her team of researchers

at NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering.

"With XT's expertise in developing successful commercial products, we are

confident that this collaboration will result in a disruptive innovation," she

said in a statement.

"Not just in the area of flash technology, but also in the world of consumer

electronics, as all computers and devices requires the use of capacitors in

one way or another."

Slim Xenon flash timetable

With funding from Singapore's National Research Foundation Proof-of-

Concept grant, the NTU-Xenon team expects to have a commercial

prototype ready by September of this year.

But don't put away your Xenon-flash-boasting Nokia 808

PureView(/news/phone-and-communications/mobile-phones/hands-

on-nokia-808-pureview-review-1066719) just yet.

Tuen told CNET that he was confident that mobile phone manufacturers will

take to the new slim Xenon flash - but it won't be in a flash. Instead, look for

the new technology in devices sometime in the end of 2014.

Via CNET(http://asia.cnet.com/expect-slim-phones-with-xenon-flash-

units-in-2014-62220514.htm)

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