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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 ...
EDN

CMOS gaining ground for large area medical, and other new image sensor applications

The current requirement profile of industrial and professional image capture can no longer be satisfied by classic CCD (charge-coupled device) image sensor technology. Innovative image sensors based ...
Nature

CMOS Image Sensors and Their Applications in Radiation Detection

CMOS image sensors, originally developed for conventional photography, have evolved into versatile detectors capable of monitoring various forms of radiation. Their compact design, low power ...
AZOM

Can New Advances in CMOS Replace sCMOS Sensors in Biomedical Applications?

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology now offers state-of-the-art imaging capabilities necessary for a number of biomedical applications, but the question is, can it supplant the ...
EDN

CMOS Image Sensors Continue March to Dominance over CCDs

El Segundo, Calif., February 9, 2012—Bolstered by their use in mobile handsets and emerging product segments, complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors in 2011 continued to expand their ...
Engadget

Canon has developed a 410-megapixel full-frame sensor

Canon announced that it has created a new 410-megapixel, 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor, "the largest number of pixels ever achieved" in a sensor of its size. Because of the level of detail the new ...
Digital Trends

CMOS camera sensor inventor returns with an extreme-low-light follow-up

The engineer that developed the CMOS sensor now found in a majority of cameras and smartphones may have just discovered the next generation of camera sensors. Eric R. Fossum and the Dartmouth College ...