Physicists have found a way to make powerful UV LEDs that they believe manufacturers could incorporate into lightweight devices for destroying pathogens such as the new coronavirus.
A newly discovered material that conducts electricity and is transparent to UV light could have a use in portable devices for killing SARS-CoV-2.
This is the virus that causes COVID-19. An international team of physicists, led by Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in Philadelphia, believes that manufacturers could incorporate UV LEDs made with the new material into lamps that are lighter, cheaper, and more efficient than the UV lamps people currently use for disinfection.