Panasonic newly-developed image sensor technology : World's First Organic CMOS Image Sensor with Electrically Controllable Near-Infrared Light Sensitivity showcased at ISSCC 2017. Panasonic Corporation recently announced that it has developed a new technology, electrical control of the near infrared (NIR) light sensitivity of the same pixel in an organic CMOS image sensor. The sensitivity of all the pixels in the image sensor, which has directly stacked organic films, is simultaneously controlled by changing the applied voltage to the organic films. This technology enables to switch between modes of color imaging and NIR imaging frame by frame without a mechanical IR cut filter required for conventional image sensors. This contributes to miniaturizing a camera system and improving the robustness.
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