Lasers Keep Killing Image SensorsThe unexplained effect of laser causing a dead row or, less often, a dead column in image sensors keep appearing in more and more Youtube videos. Most videos show damage in larger sensor cameras, while smartphone image sensor…Read More
Adimec 12um Global Shutter Pixel has 2Me- Full WellAdimec announces they are exploring white light interferometry applications for their extreme high full, high speed camera, such as (non-destructive) interferometric optical microscopy, defraction based contrast imaging, 2D s…Read More
Sub-0.3e- Noise in Quanta Sensor ReportedA preliminary open-access copy on IEEE EDL paper "Quanta Image Sensor Jot with Sub 0.3e- r.m.s. Read Noise and Photon Counting Capability" by Jiaju Ma and Eric Fossum is available on IEEE site. The paper has the latest result…Read More
Market Shares in 2011Statista publishes smartphone image sensor market shares in 2011, showing how dynamic the market is:…Read More
CMOS Sensor DatabaseSpecPick opens a database of CMOS sensors which is supposed to cover all image sensors from the manufacturers around the globe. Will see if they invest into keeping the database constantly updated. For now, it misses some com…Read More