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 ...

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. has claimed the first stacked CMOS image sensor technology with a 2-layer transistor pixel. The company’s proprietary technology separates photodiodes and pixel ...

A pioneer in digital imaging, Sony announced its first stacked CMOS sensors for full-frame cameras back in April 2017 on the flagship Sony A9 camera. A stacked CMOS sensor captures significantly more ...

Developments in CMOS image-sensor technology bring new light to applications for cameras and machine vision. Because of integrated signal processing and active pixels, products such as low-power ...

Kodak will use its own 5-megapixel CMOS sensor in the new $99 Easyshare C513 camera, due to ship this month. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

An image sensor is a solid-state device that captures light and converts it into data, which can then be converted into an image. There are two principal kinds of image sensors: CCD (charge-coupled ...

Smartphone cameras continue to be a predominate feature in consumer marketing and buying decisions on smartphones. It makes sense, then, that manufacturers of smartphone camera components are part of ...

Backside-illuminated CMOS sensors can be found in everything from the Apple iPhone 4 and HTC Evo 4G to camcorders and point-and-shoots. Here's why you want one--and why you don't. Joshua Goldman ...