At the SPIE Photonics West event in San Francisco starting February 10th, imec (Leuven, Belgium, www2.imec.be/be_en/home.html) will show continued advancement in their hyperspectral CMOS image sensors. The latest imagers are snapshot devices having one spectral filter per pixel, arranged in mosaics and deposited onto a full array of 2 Million pixels with 5.5 µm size. Two versions of the sensors have been developed, a 4 x 4 mosaic with 16 bands in the 470-630nm (visible range), and a 5 x 5 mosaic with 25 bands in the 600-1000 nm range (Visible – NIR range).
Imec’s linescan (100 bands), snapshot tiles (32 bands), and new snapshot 5x5 mosaic (25 bands) hyperspectral image sensors.