Friday, March 11, 2011

Fraunhofer Institute and Awaiba Developed 1 mm^3 Camera

Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM) in Berlin, Germany and Awaiba GmbH with support of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena, Germany developed what they call the smallest camera in the world, only 1 cubic mm in volume, including its wafer-scale lens. The camera is intended for disposable endoscopy applications. It has a resolution of 62.500 pixels and transmits the image information through the endoscope via an electrical cable. Stephan Voltz, who is the CEO of Awaiba GmbH, says that "at 1,0 times 1,0 times 1.0 millimeters, this camera is as small as coarsely ground grain of salt – the smallest camera that we are aware of." About 28,000 such image sensors fit onto one wafer.

Posted by Vladimir Koifman at 15:50

13 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 11, 2011 at 4:14 PM

    the sensor output should be analog, I guess ...

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  2. Eric R FossumMarch 11, 2011 at 4:33 PM

    Fantastic! Nice work!

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  3. AnonymousMarch 11, 2011 at 10:17 PM

    Anybody else produces CMOS sensors up to 1.5mm x 1.5 mm? OVT's smallest sensor is 1.8mm x 1.8mm.

    Thanks!

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  4. AnonymousMarch 12, 2011 at 10:31 AM

    but OV's sensor has more pixels, 400x400.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 12, 2011 at 5:31 PM

    is it for sideview videoscope???

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  6. AnonymousMarch 12, 2011 at 6:23 PM

    Medigus has a 0.7 mm x 0.7 mm imager with almost 50,000 pixels

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  7. AnonymousMarch 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Well, it's a problem of packaging and not really a CIS design issue. The imaging performance doesn't need to be high except the color rendition for medical applications. But for the color, you can do a lot of post-processing in the control box.

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  8. AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    so this is 20% the pixel count of a VGA camera. what is the value here? size for one. what else?

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  9. AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 6:16 PM

    Taking a peak at a lot of places offers values that are only done presently with X-ray, ultrasound ...

    Examples include ThirdEye Retroscope, catheter mounted imaging module, ...

    The key is to reduce the price at disposable level.

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  10. 01mm cameraJanuary 10, 2012 at 1:52 PM

    I WANT NEED 01MM CAMERA,

    SO WHAT CAN I DO?

    MONIL PATEL

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  11. Vladimir KoifmanJanuary 10, 2012 at 2:56 PM

    You can ask Awaiba. If you have meaningful volumes, I'm sure Awaiba would be happy to sell this stuff to you.

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  12. DercumsladyDecember 3, 2016 at 8:35 PM

    How can I buy one?

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  13. mhnkarSeptember 6, 2019 at 6:09 PM

    I am from India. I want to buy some cameras of 1X1X1 mm. for my research work. Can you reply to raokarri@yahoo.com.
    Dr.K.Mohan Rao,MD,DGO,Ph.D.

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