If you were asked to design a camera sensor, you'd naturally put the photo receptors on top, closest to the light. Oddly enough, because of the way chips are fabricated, until recently most camera ...

Tokyo, Jan 23, 2012 – (JCN Newswire) – Sony Corp. today announced that it has developed a new next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which embodies the continuous evolution of the camera.

Flip-and-Lap in the fab moves image array to front of imager, which yields sharper, more sensitive pixels, but wafer bonding step adds cost. Tessera Technologies reports a conflict (and resolution) ...