CMOS Breakthrough Announced
MUNICH, Germany, June 17, 2009 -- A new CMOS image sensor could become the platform of choice for scientific photonics applications such as live cell microscopy, particle imaging velocimetry, adaptive optics, machine vision, and solar astronomy, according to scientists from Andor Technology, Fairchild Imaging, and PCO, who unveiled the technology Tuesday at Laser World of Photonics 2009. Called scientific CMOS, or sCMOS, the technology doesn't have to make the tradeoffs in key performance parameters such as sensitivity, speed,...