If you were asked to design a camera sensor, you'd naturally put the photo receptors on top, closest to the light. Oddly enough, because of the way chips are fabricated, until recently most camera ...

Tokyo, Jan 23, 2012 – (JCN Newswire) – Sony Corp. today announced that it has developed a new next-generation back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which embodies the continuous evolution of the camera.

Image sensor design has come a long way in just a few years. Some improvements have been slow, quiet and evolutionary. Others have brought a clear step forward in sensor performance. The latest ...