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Pinned Photodiode Fundamentals

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Delft University publishes a very nice PhD Thesis "Fundamental Characteristics of a Pinned Photodiode CMOS Pixel" by Yang Xu. Other than a lot of basic stuff on PPD principles and characterization, the...

NIT Announces Gated SWIR Sensor

New Imaging Technologies' latest logarithmic InGaAs offers short gating mode in QVGA and VGA resolution. The new version of its WiDy SWIR cameras allows low exposure time (down to 200ns) and low jitter...

Getting Started with ST ToF Ranging and Gesture Sensor

ST releases its ToF development board in a form of Arduino Uno shie...

Assorted News

1. Open source Sensors Journal publishes a paper on 75ps gated pixel "A 75-ps Gated CMOS Image Sensor with Low Parasitic Light Sensitivity" by Fan Zhang and Hanben Niu, Shenzhen University, China. Their...

Sony Kumamoto Fab to Fully Recover in August

Sony Corporate Strategy presentation has a slide on Kumamoto image sensor fab saying that it's expected to reach its "full utilization on a wafer input basis around the end of Augus...

Sony Reduces Image Sensor Sales and Margins Forecast

Sony President and CEO, Kazuo Hirai, provides an update on the progress of its mid-range corporate plan covering the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 ("FY2015") through the fiscal year ending March 31,...

Mobileye Autonomous Driving Lecture

Mobileye's CTO Amnon Shashua delivers a keynote on Autonomous Driving, Computer Vision and Machine Learning at CVPR 2016:Thanks to DS for the li...

Almalence Interview

Huffington Post publishes an interview with Almalence CEO Eugene Panich. His response on the question "Where are mobile phone cameras headed in the next five years?"These are a handful of ideas that may be tested in the coming years:Array cameras, from many small cameras placed in a small array, to...

IEEE Standards Association Automotive Image Quality Working Group

IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) forms Automotive Image Quality Working Group. IEEE P2020 standard addresses the fundamental attributes that contribute to image quality for automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) applications, as well as identifying existing metrics and other useful...

Image Sensor Companies Ranking

EETimes publishes image sensor companies market shares, based on Yole's June 2016 repo...

WHEC Company Introduction

China-Japan-based contact image sensor maker Weihai Hualing Opto-Electronics Co. (WHEC) publishes a company introduction video:Another video compares the company's CIS with C...

More on ISORG Organic Photodiodes

ARMDevices publishes a video interview with Christophe Premont of ISO...

SMIC - LFoundry Deal Details

SMIC publishes a webcast on LFoundry acquisition with few details on LFoundry business:Aptina remains a bulk of the businessThe utilization rate was 60% in the last few months, or 70% averaged over the last yearThe drop in utilization is explained by too much "concentration on one customer"SMIC copper...

Take the Moral Limits Test

Every once in a great while I raise a philosophical issue in this space. Most people who have tried teaching engineering ethics know that a little philosophy goes a long way, at least with undergraduates. The subject has a reputation of being dry, abstract, and far removed...

Samsung Proposes Different Readout Order to Reduce Column-to-Column ADC Coupling

Samsung Patent application US20160173800 "Image sensor for performing coupling-free readout, and device having the same" by Kyoung Min Koh, Ju Ha Kim, and Jae Cheol Yun talks about the coupling between...

Climate Feebacks Start To Kick In More

Droughts and heatwaves are putting vegetation under devastating pressure while also causing wildfires resulting in deforestation and loss of peat at massive scale, contributing to the rapid recent rise...

SMIC Buys 70% of LFoundry for 49M Euros

BusinessWire: LFoundry (Italy) and its investor Marsica Innovation S.p.A. (MI) announce the agreement to sell to SMIC a 70% stake of LFoundry for 49M Euros. At the closing, SMIC, LFoundry and MI will...

SensL Interview

Yole Développement publishes an interview with SensL CTO Carl Jackson and VP Marketing Wade Appelman. These days, SensL is focusing primarily on LiDAR for ADAS and consumer robotics and drones. Few quotes:"Our...

Softkinetic CARlib

Softkinetic publishes its automotive gesture control promotion vid...

Noise Reduction in Multi-Aperture Cameras

Shizuoka University publishes PhD Thesis "A study on low-noise high-sensitivity multiaperture camera with selective averaging" by Bo Zhang. From the abstract: "a prototype 3×3-aperture camera is developed....

ISORG Demos its Printed Photodioodes

IDTechExShow Show held in Berlin publishes Youtube video about ISORG produc...

2016 Electronic Imaging Proceedings On-Line

Proceedings of the Electronic Imaging conference 2016 are available on-line, free of charge, with no registration.Thanks to AT for the li...

Image Sensor Architecture for Continuous Mobile Vision

Robert LiKamWa publishes his presentation at ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2016, Seoul, Korea "RedEye: Analog ConvNet Image Sensor Architecture for Continuous Mobile...

e2v Announces Gated NIR Imaging Optimized Sensor

e2v announces the Onyx EV76C664 1.3MP global shutter CMOS sensor. The new sensor features an embedded active imaging system which synchronises external illumination and internal electronic shuttering....

2016 Harvest Imaging Forum Registration Opens

Albert Theuwissen announces a start of registration for 2016 Harvest Imaging Forum "Robustness of CMOS Technology and Circuitry outside the Imaging Core : integrity, variability, reliability."The Imaging forum is split into two parts, divided over two days:The basic required knowledge to understand...

Rambus Presents Lens-Less Eye Tracking Sensor

EETimes: Rambus presented a poster "Lensless Smart Sensors: Optical and Thermal Sensing for the Internet of Things" at VLSI Symposia 2016. The sensor utilizes a phase anti-symmetric diffraction grating...

Toshiba Proposes Single-Lens RGB-Depth Camera

Toshiba presented an imaging technique that can simultaneously acquire a color image and a depth map from a single image taken by a monocular camera at The 22nd Symposium on Sensing via Image Information...

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