Tucson, AZ-bases Spectral Instruments shows its new product - 112MP CCD camera with 95mm x 95mm B&W sensor. The CCD is cooled down to -100C to reduce noise. The company's Youtube video demos the new 1110s camera:
Spectral Instruments also has 900 series 256MB camera, but the CCD sensor there is composed of 16 lower resolution CCDs.
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ReplyDeleteLet's try that again. This looks like Dick Bredthauer's sensor. see:
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The sensor should be placed in a vaccum chamber, no??
ReplyDeleteOeps, is this correct ? If I remember well (sitting in a hotel room you can not remember everything !) this camera is based on the Canon CMOS sensors presented at ISSCC and IISW. I think it is not a CCD in that case.
ReplyDeleteAlso Canon used an 8" wafer, and Dick's was on a 6" wafer. At Philips, a full wafer-scale CCD was done in 1996 as well, but that was also 6" (see 1997 IISW).
Look at this one :
ReplyDeletehttp://www.canonwatch.com/112-mp-bw-sensor-that-captures-the-sun-and-the-stars-in-on-shot/
Well, they say CCD many times, and Zeke says the sensor is 95 mm x 95 mm which is 9 um x 10,560 pixels on a side, almost exactly, as Dick said. Just because an article shows up on the Canonwatch site, doesn't mean it is a Canon product!
ReplyDeleteI am sticking with Bredthauer over Canon based on these facts.
On the flyer on Spectral Imaging's website there is a picture showing a 6" wafer with the CCD on it. You can even read "STA" at the top of the wafer, so quite likely it's Bredthauer's CCD.
ReplyDeleteSee page 2 on http://www.specinst.com/1300S%20Camera%20Broch_Rev.pdf
Another picture of the same wafer can be seen here (Dalsa semiconductor, who fabbed the CCD) : http://www.teledynedalsa.com/corp/news/news.aspx?itemID=17
Thanks for your reactions. So I think you are right, the title CANONWATCH was misleading to me. Enjoy your day.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty interested in astronomy, but I'm curious if there are some non-astronomical applications for this thing?
ReplyDeleteContact sensing or long micro-channels integrated on top?
DeleteGiant mobile phone for example :)
ReplyDeleteIt has been a pleasure watching the speculation. Yes, Eric it is our STA1600 111 mega pixel CCD imager. Dinosaurs continue to roam the earth. If you look at our web page www.sta-inc.net you can see where they are going.
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