Demand for Versatile CMOS Sensors Continues to Grow
Twenty-five years ago, physicist and engineer Eric Fossum predicted the end of the charge-coupled device (CCD) imaging sensor. Fossum, a Dartmouth University professor who was then at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab just north of Pasadena, Calif., helped develop the first complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) active pixel imaging sensors. In the intervening decades, Fossum’s prediction came true; CMOS imagers, spurred by high demand in the smartphone industry, have become...
Photonics Spectra, September 2019