Image Sensor

Teledyne Space Imaging has had its second CCD launch within a week, this time in part of the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-4 space-based air-quality monitoring mission. In the other one, a pair of Teledyne CIS120 sensors launched on GOSAT-GW, Japan’s global observing satellite for greenhouse gases and water cycle satellite Sentinel-4 will be spread across multiple satellites, with this Sentinel-4 ...

This is the world’s first x-ray image sensor to directly convert radiation into electronic signals using quantum dots on a CMOS IC, according to Swiss innovation center CSEM, which made it with Dutch nano particle start-up QDI Systems. The IC is a custom transistor array sensitive to carriers released by the coating. Designed to be spray-applied, the active parts of ...

Melexis has created a 32 x 24 pixel far-infra-red sensor array that can photograph the temperature of objects at between -40 and +260°C. Dubbed MLX90642, it comes in a 9.3mm diameter four-lead TO39 through-hole package in two versions: a squat (5.7mm tall) 110° x 75° wide-view type (BCA suffix) and a taller (11.9mm) 45° x 35° narrow-view version (BCB). The ...

Onsemi has released 1.2Mpixel time-of-flight (iToF) matrix sensors for 3D imaging fast-moving objects. “By using proprietary global shutter pixel architecture and on-board storage, the Hyperlux ID family can capture an entire scene and simultaneously process depth measurement in real-time,” according to the company. “This approach enables depth sensing up to 30 meters. Additionally, the sensor family is capable of producing ...

IR sensor specialist, Lynred, has announced it will acquire New Imaging Technologies. The Paris-based company designs and manufactures SWIR imaging sensors and modules based upon InGaAs focal plane arrays. It produces SWIR (shortwave IR) imaging modules and sensors, including large format shortwave sensors with a small pixel pitch. New Imaging Technologies also has a portfolio of wide dynamic range patents ...

Raspberry Pi has announced a 12.3Mpixel AI camera, based on Sony’s IMX500 intelligent sensor, which “supports on-board processing for a variety of neural network models, leaving the processor in the host Raspberry Pi free to perform other operations,” according to Raspberry Pi. Alongside the image sensor is a RP2040 microcontroller for neural network frame firmware, a DSP and ram, and ...

At the Small Satellite Conference in Utah, Imec announced a hyperspectral sensor with an on-chip line-based filter covering 450 – 900nm in 96 bands. It had equidistantly divided spectral bands and, compared with its previous generation, double the TDI (time-delayed-integration) capacity – to 10 line per band. Underneath the filter is a ‘2/3inch’ 2,048pixel image sensor from AMS – the ...

Senseeker has introduced a 1,280 x 1,024 version of its 10µm digital read-out IC (‘droic’) for short-wave infra-red imaging arrays, including quantum dot-based detector types. RD0131 as it will be known has a capacitive transimpedance amplifier (CTIA) front-end. There are three selectable gains, with well capacity of: 22k electrons (high-gain), 160ke- (medium) or 1.1Me- (low). In high gain, room temperature ...

Hamamatsu Photonics has created an x-ray image sensor for real-time non-destructive testing and digital radiography. C16401SK-51 has 1,272 x 1,104 pixels, a photo-sensitive area of 140 x 122.8mm, and uses cmos sensing with a GOS (gadolinium oxysulfide) scintillator. “This combination ensures optimal performance and reliability, even when used with x-ray tube voltages of up to 160kV, making it suitable for ...

French research lab CEA-Leti has reported stacking three 300mm wafers for improved CMOS image sensors, using hybrid wafer bonding and high-density through-silicon vias. The announcement was made in three papers at ECTC, the 2024 IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference in Colorado. 6μm hybrid bonding pad pitch, and TSVs are 1 x 10μm It is working towards a new generation ...