Sony announces 5.07MP 2/3-inch IMX250LLR/LQR and 3.2MP 1/1.8-inch IMX252LLR/LQR sensors featuring a new generation global shutter pixel. Sony says that the new 3.45um pixels are industry's smallest global shutter pixels for industrial applications. The pixels feature improved sensitivity, 1.1 times over the company's previous generation of 5.86 µm pixels. In addition, EXview HAD CCD technology is said to increases sensitivity in NIR (see the bigger 800 x 670 pictures on Sony site):
ST Proposes Bias S&H to Reduce NoiseST Micro patent Application US20120006973 proposes to sample bias voltages and currents and hold them between CDS reset sample and signal sample, so that any bias noise does is constant over CDS cycle and, thus, subtracted. F…Read More
Teledyne DALSA Started Imaging BlogTeledyne DALSA begins its Imaging Blog. So far it has just the first post starting a talk about machine vision interface standards: "It started smoothly with Camera Link more than ten years ago. Then came DCAM for Firewire, f…Read More
SiOnyx Founder Won SPIE Green Photonics AwardHarvard University: SiOnyx Founder Eric Mazur with four his students won SPIE Green Photonics Award for Laser-assisted Manufacturing and Micro/Nano Fabrication. The winning paper was written by Eric Mazur, the Balanski Profes…Read More
Needham: Omnivision Lost iPad 3 Socket to SamsungStreet Insider quotes Needham analyst Rajvindra Gill saying "OVTI has lost the image sensor socket on Apple’s next-generation iPad 3 HD to Samsung. We believe the iPad 3 will include a 5MP sensor for the back-camera and will …Read More
Aptina Shows How to Isolate Deep PDsAptina's patent application US20120009723 titled "Range modulated implants for image sensors" talks about deep photodiode process and shows quite impressive PD isolation shape of a 1.1um-pitched PD extending all the way throu…Read More