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 ...

Here's the run-down on back-side illuminated sensors (like those in the recently announced Sony cameras) including how they differ from more conventional designs and why we're still waiting for an ...

November 14, 2016 — New Jersey, USA. Princeton Instruments is pleased to introduce its KURO:1200B, the world’s first scientific CMOS camera system to implement back-illuminated sensor technology.

Sony has announced that it has developed a next-generation back-illuminated CMOS sensor to advance the digital camera genre. The construction of the new CMOS sensor layers the pixel section with the ...

Sony has developed a new CMOS technology that may revolutionize consumer video camcorders and cameras: a 5-megapixel, 60 frames per second back-illuminated sensor. As you can see in this test image, ...

The FINANCIAL — Sony Corporation on June 5 announced it has developed a back-illuminated time-of-flight (“ToF”) image sensor with a 10µm pixel pitch, the industry’s smallest. This accomplishment was ...

Sony may be most likely to be associated with their VAIO notebooks and slimmer-than-slim HDTVs, but the company's camera modules are pretty stellar. The NEX line of mirrorless cameras are giving ...

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.

I’m just wrapping my head around CMOS and you spring this on me? This Ricoh CX3 is a 10-megapixel shooter with 720p video recording and “Pets” scene mode. But what the heck is a back illuminated ...

Sony today announced a new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor for smartphones, tablets, and other devices. Sony says that this sensor was made by laying the "pixel section containing formations of ...

Every aspect of Andor’s new Sona microscope sCMOS camera platform has been engineered from the ground up to optimize performance, drawing the best performance possible from the sensors that have been ...

The FINANCIAL — Sony Corporation announced that it has developed a new next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which embodies the continuous evolution of the camera, according to Sony. This ...