Title: CMOS IMAGE SENSORS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 

Speaker: Prof.Albert J.P. Theuwissen (Delft University of Technology)   

Time: Sept. 6, 2015 2:30PM 

Venue: LED Meeting Room, Building 5, IOS, CAS 

Abstract: The talk will not focus on a particular application field, but will deal with the major new developments for CMOS image sensors. As a guide through the wide variety of new technologies and developments, the International Image Sensor Workshop 2015 is being used. More information about (ultra-) low noise devices, large area sensors, stacked imagers and sensors with extremely large conversion gains will be revealed. In the last part of the presentation, the future of imagers will be discussed. Special focus will be given to the question : what else can be done with those CMOS pixels besides capturing imaging information.

Biography：Albert J.P. Theuwissen was born in Maaseik (Belgium) on December 20, 1954. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 1977 and 1983. His dissertation was on the implementation of transparent conductive layers as gate material in the CCD technology. In 1983, he joined the Micro Circuits Division of the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven (the Netherlands), as a member of the scientific staff. Since that time he was involved in research in the field of solid state image sensing, which resulted in the project leadership of respectively SDTV- and HDTV imagers. He is author or coauthor of over 160 technical papers in the solid state imaging field and issued several patents. In 1995, he authored a textbook "Solid State Imaging with Charge Coupled Devices" and in 2011 he co-edited the book "Single-Photon Imaging". In 1998 and 2007 he became an IEEE ED and SSCS distinguished lecturer. From 1999 till 2010 he was a member of the technical committee of ISSCC. He has been elected to be International Technical Program Chair vice-chair and chair for respectively the ISSCC 2009 and ISSCC 2010. In March 2001, he was appointed as part-time professor at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. At this University he teaches courses in solid-state imaging; coaches MSc and PhD students in their research on CMOS image sensors. In April 2002, he joined DALSA Corp. to act as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. After he left DALSA in September 2007, he started his own company “Harvest Imaging”, focusing on consulting, training, teaching and coaching in the field of solid-state imaging technology (www.harvestimaging.com).In 2006 he co-founded (together with his peers Eric Fossum and Nobukazu Teranishi) ImageSensors, Inc. (a California non-profit public benefit company) to address the needs of the image sensor community (www.imagesensors.org). In 2008, he received the SMPTE’s Fuji Gold medal for his contributions to the research, development and education of others in the field of solid-state image capturing. He is member of editorial board of the magazine “Photonics Spectra”, an IEEE Fellow and member of SPIE.