The camera in your pocket is hiding tech that was originally made for outer space. The sensor that is now widely used in most smartphone cameras, compact cameras, and mirrorless cameras – the ...

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Let’s start with this – did you know that one of the most important pieces of camera technology was developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab in 1993? That’s right: it’s the active pixel sensor that’s ...

Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) have emerged as a transformative technology for high energy physics experiments. These sensors integrate both the sensitive detector matrix and on‐pixel readout ...

A new type of active pixel sensor that uses a novel two-dimensional material may both enable ultra-sharp cellphone photos and create a new class of extremely energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT) ...

The dynamic range of a scene is usually higher than the dynamic range of the sensor used to acquire the image. Design optimizations must be found that increase the intra-scene dynamic range a sensor ...

In this image adapted from the figures, the left side shows the chip micrograph, while the right side displays the pixel layout and schematics, highlighting each circuit element. The new pixel circuit ...

The S16101 CMOS area image sensor with back-illuminated structure and a 1280x1024 Active Pixel Sensor matrix, incorporates a timing generator, amplifier and A/D converter. The sensor has a digital ...