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High-Speed CMOS Sensors Provide Better Images

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DUISBURG, Germany, Jan. 5, 2012 — A patented lateral drift field photodetector (LDPD) that boosts the speed of traditional CMOS sensors now can produce better-quality images for low-light applications such as spectroscopy, astronomy and x-ray photography. Certain CMOS applications require pixels in excess of 10 µm, which compensate for low light in x-ray or astronomy image capture. The high-speed sensors could be used as 3-D sensors based on the time-of-flight process, whereby light sources emit short pulses that are reflected by objects. The time of flight of the reflected light is recorded by a sensor and used...Read full article

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    Published: January 2012
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    astronomy
    The scientific observation of celestial radiation that has reached the vicinity of Earth, and the interpretation of these observations to determine the characteristics of the extraterrestrial bodies and phenomena that have emitted the radiation.
    astronomyBasic ScienceCMOSCMOS chip manufacturingCMOS sensorEuropeFraunhofer IMSFraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems IMSGermanyhigh-speed CMOS sensorsimage captureImagingindustrialinternal electric fieldlateral drift field photodetectorLDPDOpticsphotoactive regionpinned photodiodesPPDreadout speedResearch & TechnologySensors & Detectorsspectroscopytime-of-flight 3-D sensorsTriDiCam GmbHWerner Brockherdex-ray photography

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