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 ...

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 on Monday announced its latest and thinnest back-illuminated CMOS image sensor that will no doubt help manufacturers create thinner smartphones. "Sony has succeeded in establishing a structure ...

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 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 ...

ON Semiconductor is expanding its 1/3-inch 1 megapixel (MP) image sensor portfolio with early sampling of the company’s first backside illuminated sensor (BSI) technology for the automotive imaging ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, there you have it: the BSI gauntlet has been officially thrown. Sony just announced its own backside-illuminated CMOS sensor meant to rival OmniVision's achievement. Sony's sensor features 1.75 ...