EDN

CMOS Image Sensors Continue March to Dominance over CCDs

El Segundo, Calif., February 9, 2012—Bolstered by their use in mobile handsets and emerging product segments, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors in 2011 continued to expand their ...
Electronic Design

Creating On-Chip MEMS Sensors in CMOS

Nanusens' novel approach to creating nanoscale sensor structures inside the CMOS layers. How the methodology helps shrink cost and size. Previously, MEMS sensors were created by employing proprietary ...
EDN

CMOS image sensor boasts dual speed streaming

Sony’s IMX675 CMOS image sensor simultaneously outputs full-pixel captured images at 40 fps, as well as high-speed regions of interest. The 5.12-Mpixel, 1/2.8-in. (6.53-mm diagonal) sensor is the ...
The Financial

Sony Develops the Industry’s First 3-Layer Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with DRAM for Smartphones

The FINANCIAL — Sony Corporation on February 7 announced the development of the industry’s first 3-layer stacked CMOS image sensor with DRAM for smartphones. The new image sensor consists of a DRAM ...
WATE 6 On Your Side

Sony Semiconductor Solutions to Release Industry's First*1 CMOS Image Sensor for Security Cameras That Simultaneously Delivers Full-Pixel Output of Captured Images and High ...

In an industry first, *1 the new sensor from SSS leverages Dual Speed Streaming technology to output all of the pixels in a captured image at a maximum rate of 40 frames per second while ...
Optics

High UV sensitivity CMOS area image sensor

The S16101 CMOS area image sensor with back-illuminated structure and a 1280x1024 Active Pixel Sensor matrix, incorporates a timing generator, amplifier and A/D converter. The sensor has a digital ...
Optics

imec integrates thin-film pinned photodiode in SWIR sensors

Imec, the Leuven, Belgium-based research and innovation hub in nano- and digital technologies, has announced the successful integration of a “pinned photodiode structure” in thin-film image sensors.