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The inventor of the CMOS camera sensor just won the Nobel Prize of Engineering

The godfather of the active-pixel CMOS sensor, Eric R Fossum, PhD, has been awarded the 2026 Charles Stark Draper Prize for ...
Digital Photography Review on MSN

Eric Fossum earns the prestigious Draper Prize for pioneering the CMOS image sensor

Image: Draper Eric Fossum, the inventor of the modern CMOS image sensor and a longtime friend of DPReview, was recently ...
Business Wire

Aroma Bit Succeeds in Developing the World's Smallest*1 High-Odor Resolution CMOS Semiconductor-Based Odor Imaging Sensor Chip

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aroma Bit, Inc. (Representative Director & President: Shunichiro Kuroki, Headquarter: Chuo-ku, Tokyo, hereinafter "Aroma Bit"), a company that plans and develops compact odor ...
Business Wire

Toshiba Releases 16 Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor for Smartphones and Tablets

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO:6502) today announced the launch of “T4KC3”, a 16 megapixel(MP) BSI CMOS image sensor. Sample shipments are scheduled to start in September this year ...
EDN

CMOS image chips beg fab questions

SAN FRANCISCO — Are CMOS image sensors ready for foundry production? Industry representatives were almost evenly split at an evening panel that addressed the question at the International Solid-State ...
Security

OmniVision in Volume Production With its First 1/4-Inch, 3-Megapixel System-On-A-Chip Sensor

Its OmniPixel (R), OmniPixel2 (TM), OmniPixel3 (TM) and OmniPixel3-HS (TM) CameraChip (TM) products are highly integrated single-chip CMOS image sensors for mass-market consumer and commercial ...
Nature

CMOS Image Sensor Technology

CMOS image sensor technology underpins a wide array of modern imaging applications, ranging from everyday digital cameras to specialised scientific instruments. This technology exploits complementary ...
SlashGear

Nikon 1-Inch Stacked CMOS Sensor Boasts 1000 Fps Shooting

While smartphone makers are still playing the megapixel game, camera makers are looking into other aspects of digital photography that can still be improved. Nikon, for example, just boasted the ...
EDN

MagnaChip beefs up CMOS image sensor line

TAIPEI, Taiwan &#151 After spinning off from Hynix Semiconductor last year, Korea's MagnaChip Semiconductor is moving quickly to beef up its CMOS image sensor product line. The company said Tuesday it ...
Optics

MIT camera chip improves views of neural behavior

A project at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has developed a sensor chip suited in particular to enhanced imaging of neural activity. Described in Nature Communications, the chip ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Die-level Thinning and Integrating Route For Singulated MPW Chips Using Both Silicon Sensors and CMOS Devices

“Die-level thinning, handling, and integration of singulated dies from multi-project wafers (MPW) are often used in research, early-stage development, and prototyping of flexible devices. There is a ...