Biomorphic CMOS sensors feature APD technology : Tower Semiconductor today announced that Tower's Advanced Photo Diode process powers a new series of CMOS Image Sensors for Biomorphic Microsystems Corporation, a supplier of innovative imaging solutions for the cell phone and PDA markets. Tower's APD process enables improved optical and electrical performance of ultra-small pixels utilizing deep sub-micron process technologies, thus enabling the manufacture of small, cost-effective camera module solutions. Manufactured at Tower's Fab2 in 0.18-micron technology, the products utilize Tower's pixel IP and the company's optically optimized multilayer metallization, which achieves dramatically better optical sensitivity.
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