...new nanotechnology-based Single Carrier Modulation Photo Detector (SMPD)... The company (Planet82, the sensor's manufacturer and director of the Nano Scale Quantum Devices Research Center at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) says the sensor is 2,000 times more sensitive to light than traditional photo sensors – it can take picture in near total darkness.
The SMPD image sensor can be mass-produced using standard CMOS process without additional investment for facilities. It is half the size of the current CCD image sensor used in digital cameras and closed circuit television cameras (CCTVs), and CMOS image sensors used in camera phones.
The company expects SMPD image sensor will firstly be available in CCTVs, camera phones and vehicle rear-view sensors.
press release | Nanowerk
~Not putting these new photo sensors into cameras suggests there's a significant loss of quality that camera owners wouldn't tolerate but camera-phone owners wouldn't notice? (I don't know.)
Posted by Stubbornson at January 31, 2007 03:14 PM