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The inventor of the CMOS sensor is working on a revolutionary 1-billion pixel sensor

Oct 12, 2015 by Liron Samuels 7 Comments
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Quanta Image Sensor. Remember that name; it could be the new sensor type that will replace the CMOS in your current camera.

No need to worry though that the inventor of the CMOS will be forgotten, as professor Eric Fossum who invented it is also behind the development of the QIS.

Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering’s professor, along with Thayer PhD candidate Jiaju Ma, have been working on a new pixel for over three years and eventually would like to“have 1 billion pixels on the sensor and we’ll still keep the sensor the same size,” says the co-inventor.

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