<img src=”https://naked-science.ru/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DSC_0928.jpg” alt=”Russian scientists have accelerated nanotube detectors by a hundred million times”/>NUST MISIS scientists and their colleagues have presented an ultra-fast integrated optical detector that can be adapted for various tasks – from telecommunications and thermal imagers to medical biosensors, security systems and astronomical instruments. The device detects weak infrared signals in an integrated optical chip 100 million times faster than its analogues and updates data over a billion times per second, making it one of the fastest in its class.