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Child Inventor: Saumil Bandyopadhyay Invents Infrared Photo Detector

By Devika Koppikar     Many 18-year-olds spend time snapping candid photos with their iPhones. But, that’s not the case with Saumil Bandyopadhyay. Instead, the only child of an electrical engineering professor (father, Supriyo) and math/reading teacher (mother, Anuradha) spends his days conducting research on the infrared photo detector.     What is an infrared photo detector?     “It is a sensor …

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