The Chips That See: Rise of the Image Sensor

The brand new Sony camera Alpha III? has a Global shutter which exposes the entire sensor at one time not a scrolling shutter.

Kinda interesting that right now CCD Sensors are seeing somewhat of a resurgence, big problem still being the amount of energy needed... while CMOS Sensors have hit a wall

What about SPAD based image sensor ICs?

I happily, recently acquired a used Phase One IQ 280 digital back & XF body. I chose that over the Fujifilm GFX 100 II. I already have the Sony a7rIV... which is close enough to the GFX camera.

It's worth noting that CCDs are essential for telescopes and they're vastly preferred in movie cameras as they aren't subject to rolling shutter.

the more a global shutter/parallel shift registers registers/synchronous adding/progressing makes sence

Quantum dot CMOS sensors are far more sensitive

@Asianometry >>> "NOISE is BAD."

Me, who spent MANY YEARS working on and around {and LOVES} gas turbine-powered aircraft:
NO LIES DETECTED...😉

{YES, I understand the video refers to ELECTRONIC NOISE...😊}

Thank you for the clear information.

The g in 'Hughes' is silent. Thanks for the video.

Always hoped the Foveon sensor got used more, kind of interesting to see a third player.

NASA needed something simpler, faster and cheaper so Lockheed-Martin proposed the F35!

I like how the show a woman using a vacuum cleaner while she listens to their digests! I really want it! That silent vacuum cleaner, I mean.

Ehh... PMT's are not imaging devices, you meant camera tubes like Vidicon. CID sensors were completely skipped. CDS was originally used for CCD to get rid of the reset noise. EMCCD, that is basically a solid state, imaging PMT was also missed. Kodak and their transparent gate technology, SITe and their early back-illuminated CCDs (that were used on space probes), Foveon and LBCAST sensors were all missed. And is there a CMOS sensor with ADC in each pixel? There are ones with ADC in every row, is all. Many, many interesting technical details and historycal events ignored or incorrectly presented.

If you have to make a bet, you can always bet on CMOS to become cheaper faster.

Thank you for an interesting video. I worked on CCDs, using them as analogue data storage in 1972 and found out the hard way that they were light sensitive as my test circuits failed when the sun came out. I haven't had a cause to use them since. Though I did have a Nokia N95 phone for a while. I always wondered why they were being replaced by CMOS.

ccd & lcd are really important inventions of mondern tech world.

Humans technological advancement is based upon how many transistors we can fit on a chip

I believe that it's more appropriate to speak of photovoltaic rather than photoelectric effect in this case, as electrons aren't ejected from the material, but promoted from valence to conduction band.

Modern CMOS image sensors (CIS) have solved the fill factor issue by using Back Side Illumination (BSI) circa 2010 then this approach led to Stacking (2 layer semiconductor) circa 2015 and now triple stack is being expected as the big news of iphone release 2023, all this 3D semiconductor approach is specific to CIS but has much wider implications, such as memory stacking, this could be another story covered by this wonderfull chanel

What about that SIGMA Fovion image sensor?

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Cool. Thanks for sharing.

When I think of bubble memory, I think of the non-volatile magnetic memory promoted by TI and others in the 1970's. The development of winchester disks and CMOS memory put the bubble memory to bed. I remember at TI we were also attempting to develop CCD imaging. The problem was that the metal layer on top of the device made it difficult to make the collection area for each pixel as large as it could be. So a technique of sandblasting the back of the chip so thin that light could come through the backside of the chip. Today we talk mostly about the successful ideas, but there was a lot of effort put into those ideas that never made it.

I appreciate your channel. Thanks!

Amazing, I love your Videos! What about a sequel about Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD), which are also CMOS compatible, could play a role in interesting applications are also also making their way into the consumer market (canon, Sony)..

I was doing some reading on the Henschel Hs 117 surface to air missle and noticed its detonation system used (detonated by acoustic and photoelectric proximity fuses) I suspect they may have used a early photomultiplier tube but I need to do more research.

You are an absolute champion of the people for providing such accurate and useful information in a way that normal working class individuals can understand.

I would argue that even today CCDs are far better sensors than CMOS, and their "Shutter" can be done electronically as well. This because the electrons on a back side illuminated CCD have to migrate toward the wells by an applied electric field. The big reason why CMOS has "mostly" replaced CCDs is that it is more conducive with the fact that most modern microchips use CMOS technology in their design, and thus it is easier to manufacture, for most fabs. Almost all modern astronomy cameras still use CCD technology as they have better dynamic range, higher quantum efficiency and lower noise. In the last few years I used a modern industrial CCD camera could still out perform almost any other CMOS camera in terms of low light and high QE for a particular application.

Really tip my hat to the scientists and developers that had strength of stomach and grit to risk their years and fortunes on these gambles..🙏

It's basically a solar panel with extra steps

What do you think abut the Dynamic Vision Sensors? (Event cameras)

Cmos for the win! Cmos rules.

It's more like shoving electrons arond quantum wells...

Photoelectric Effect!

I remember "bubble" as magnetic memory. CCD was called a "bucket brigade device" at the time, and could be used as analogue delay line.

I remember Photobit. I applied for a job with them in end of the 1990's after I finished my Masters. They had their offices near the University of Oslo, Blindern in Oslo, Norway (I didn't get the job though...)

If the sensor is basically capturing photons to displace electrons into wells why doesn’t it charge the battery? Does the amplifier drain the charge in excess of additional charge? Maybe the capture process can power the amplifier before the signal is transmitted to the decoder…

Meta material lens will also be important.

The CCDs are still used in scientific machines where they cool them down to absolute zero to mitigate thermal noise.

Image sensors don't see per se.

i will never understand why people love smartphones, i won't spend more then 50 dollars for a smartphone.

Nobody naming Fujifilm, as far as I know they make the best sensors.

Ma men. When going you to pump out 4K AV01 content?

Your ccd camera in the past.. it drained battery "very fast"- Ome or two hours? No shit! But the modern camcorders how many hours works on a battery? Are you part of GLOBALIST rotschild&co. PROPAGANDA MACHINE? I've observed you promote public image of that scumbag thieve jew and story behind "his life".. which is in same line with soros-rotschild propaganda AND slava propaganda (of course, because in ukraim rotschild gang bought everything before war started..

CCDs are a current based technology, whereas CMOS is a voltage based technology. As the resolution increases, the heat from the current required for CCDs increases. This became a real problem for professional video camera makers in the early days of HD. The increased resolution of HD made the smaller CCD chips impossible because of the excess heat. While CMOS was a possible solution, the rolling shutter effect of CMOS was disliked by professional video producers. Because this was the only solution to shooting HD on smaller chips, it took time for the professional video market to accept this limitation.