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Robotics Summit & Expo - 1-2 May 2024 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Website

CLEO - Congress on Lasers and Electro-Optics  -  5-10 May 2024 - Charlotte, North Carolina, USA - Website

Automate - 6-9 May 2024 - Detroit, Michigan, USA - Website

8th International Conference on Bio-Sensing Technology - 12-15 May 2024 - Seville, Spain - Website

16th Optatec - 14-16 May 2024 - Frankfurt, Germany - Website

The 4th International Electronic Conference on Biosensors - 20-22 May 2024 - Online - Website

Auto-Sens USA - 21-23 May 2024 - Detroit, Michigan, USA - Website

ALLSENSORS 2024 - 26-30 May 2024 - Barcelona, Spain - Website

20th WCNDT - 27-31 May 2024 - Incheon, Korea - Website

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SPIE Photonics Europe - 7-11 Apr 2024 - Strasbourg, France - Website

Position Sensitive Neutron Detectors (PSND 24) - 8-11 Apr 2024 - Oxford, UK - Website

IEEE Silicon Photonics Conference - 15-18 April 2024 - Hilton Tokyo Bay, Japan - Website

Compound Semiconductor International Conference -  16-17 Apr 2024 - Brussels, Belgium - Website

IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) - 21-24 Apr 2024 - Denver, Colorado, USA - Website

2024 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit - 22-26 Apr 2024 - Seattle, Washington, USA - Website

SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing - 23-25 Apr 2024 - National Harbor, Maryland, USA - Website

SPIE Future Sensing Technologies  -  23-25 Apr 2024 - Yokohama, Japan - Website

OPIE ’24 (OPTICS & PHOTONICS International Exhibition 2024) - 24-26 Apr 2024 - Yokohama, Japan - Website

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2023

5 Nov - 29 Oct - 22 Oct - 15 Oct - 8 Oct - 1 Oct - 23 Sep

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5th workshop on Image Sensors for Precision Astronomy (ISPA) - 12-14 March 2024 - Menlo Park, California, USA - Website

20th Annual Device Packaging Conference - 18-21 Mar 2024 - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - Website

Image Sensors Europe - 20-21 Mar 2024 - London, UK - Website

Laser World of Photonics China - 20-22 Mar 2024 - Shanghai, China - Website

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20th Annual Device Packaging Conference - 18-21 Mar 2024 - Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - Website

Image Sensors Europe - 20-21 Mar 2024 - London, UK - Website

Laser World of Photonics China - 20-22 Mar 2024 - Shanghai, China - Website

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 A few interesting samples:

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This entry covers the progression of products originally developed by Reticon through its acquisition by EG&G (retaining the Reticon name) then EG&G's acquisition of part of PerkinElmer and the PerkinElmer name (Reticon was still applied sporadically as a brand) and finally the spinoff of PerkinElmer's optoelectronics businesses as Excelitas. Throughout this process, many of the original Reticon products retained their original part numbers as can be seen in the data sheets. 

Four items of note:

1 - Documents issued under "EG&G Reticon" are in the Reticon folder since the Reticon identity was maintained.  There is not yet an EG&G folder but this will be added when the amorphous silicon flat-panel products developed by EG&G are covered. The EG&G Amorphous Silicon facility was in the same building as Reticon in Sunnyvale, California, but operated independently. That business was later sold by PerkinElmer to Varex, formerly Varian Medical Systems.

2 - Excelitas no longer sells any Reticon-originated products. These became difficult to source when the fab Reticon operated in its own building was closed in the late 90's. Moving from a 3 micron process to 180 nm was quite difficult, especially while the selection of fabs who could make CCDs was rapidly shrinking. Excelitas still sells products originally made by some of the other optoelectronics companies EG&G bought, like thermopile arrays.  Those are included in the Excelitas folder but their history will be told later.

3 - Reticon, up through the PerkinElmer days, made many custom devices including a 20,000 pixel long three-color TDI sensor that flew on the U2 and an ultraviolet CCD for i-line semiconductor mask inspection. If the specifications or evaluation reports for any of these turn up, they will be posted.

4 - Reticon started by making bucket-brigade devices to be used as delay lines and switched-capacitor filter chips. These aren't imagers but they are in the folder to provide some background.

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PerkinElmer document archive

Excelitas document archive

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 Rivian

 OmniVision

Postdoc Positions

New Listings

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XDEP - X-ray Detector Technologies for Physics - 5-6 Feb 2024 - Saint-Aubin, France - Website

IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) - 18-22 Feb 2024 - San Francisco, California, USA - Website

SPIE Medical Imaging - 18-24- Feb 2024 - San Diego, California, USA - Website

innoLAE (Innovations in Large-Area Electronics) - 20-22 Feb 2024 - Cambridge, UK - Website

16th Terascale Detector Workshop - 21-23 Feb 2024 -  Mainz, Germany  - Website

MSS Detectors and Materials Conference (clearance may be required) - 26 Feb-1 Mar 2024 - Orlando, Florida, USA - Website

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Tektronix and SITe are posted together because one transformed into the other carrying along the existing fab, products and people. Tektronix (yes, the oscilloscope company) originally worked in CCDs to produce a delay line use to convert a fast data stream into a slower one for an oscilloscope designed to capture high-speed transients. Tek decided to use its CCD technology to make large sensors for astronomy and medicine. Making imaging devices was an odd business for them so they sold it to an investment company which, in October 1993, formed Scientific Imaging Technologies. SITe supplied big CCDs into the early 2000s.

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 Alphacore

Tesla Motors

TSMC

ams OSRAM

GlobalFoundries

Sony

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IS&T Electronic Imaging - 21-25 Jan 2024 - Burlingame, CA, USA - Website

IEEE Applied Sensing Conference - 22-24 Jan 2024 - Goa, India - Website

SPIE Photonics West - 27 Jan-1 Feb 2023 - San Francisco, CA, USA - Website

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 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting - 9-13 Dec 2023 - San Francisco, CA, USA - Website

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Now for a third company with unique technology out of the sensor business - Foveon. For those of you unfamiliar with Foveon, they started out to build three-chip, prism-based color cameras with custom CMOS sensors.  When this market was discovered to be way too small, they acquired Dick Merrill and his inventions from National Semiconductor and developed sensors with stacked RGB photodiodes in which the silicon itself provided color separation.  These were intended for DSLRs, then point-and-shoot cameras and then mobile phones. Didn't happen so, eventually, their only photographic customer, Sigma Photo, bought the assets for about 10 cents on the dollar and moved the work to Japan. Full disclosure - I sold Foveon sensors in the non-photo markets for about 10 years. Aside from Sigma, the only enduring legacy is the F13 on the ESA ExoMARS rover (now scheduled for an October 2028 launch).

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 ISW is building a new comprehensive Image Sensor Industry List. Click for more details.

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I apologize to those of you who tried to read the Pixim data sheets.  I forgot to set the share flag on the folder.  The files are available for viewing by anyone now.

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Teledyne

Lumotive

University of Arizona

Sandia National Laboratories

Santa Clara University

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IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference - 4-11 Nov 2023 - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada  - Website

Semi MEMS and Sensors Executive Conference - 6-8 Nov 2023 - Phoenix, Arizona, USA - Website

Coordinating Panel for Advanced Detectors Workshop - 7-10 Nov 2023 - Menlo Park, California, USA - Website

Compamed - 13-16 Nov 2023 - Dusseldorf, Germany - Website

Fraunhofer IMS 10th CMOS Imaging Workshop -  21-22 Nov 2023 - Duisburg, Germany - Website

RSNA 109th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting  - 26-30 Nov 2023 - Chicago, Illinois, USA - Website

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Since someone just pointed out that the Pixim weblink in the ISW vendor list was dead, I decided to put up Pixim datasheets next.  These are different from most because Pixim sold a chipset that included the sensor and a matching processor to turn the chip outputs (basically timing data) into digital image data.  Pixim also made several demonstration cameras. Sony bought Pixim in 2012 and stopped making Pixim-type chips a couple of years later because they felt they had a better way to do HDR imaging. The debate continues.

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To start the revised posting scheme,here are recently posted jobs from Apple and onsemi:

Apple

onsemi

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In order to eliminate the delays involved in reproducing jobs listings in detail, the method of reporting is changing. Starting today, this Jobs Update will be a report on job listings rather than the listings themselves.  Even in the apparent slowdown in the job market, the number of listings is still quite large and the backlog of listings that might be of interest is much larger.

To manage this situation, we will proceeds as follows: for the next few weeks, the posting will focus each week on a small number of employers with multiple openings. Relevant job titles with their locations and original listing links will be posted. The job descriptions will no be included simply because they are all so long - click the links to see the details. Please note that we will attempt always to link to the original listing on the employer website, not to job boards.

Weekly job lists in ISW will continue to have individual links for four weeks but since many jobs remain unfilled longer than that, the older postings will be held in an archive for a year. The link to the archive is positioned below the four week links.

Initially, some of the postings may be several months old but, at some point, our listings will catch up with the backlog and each weekly posting will include only recent additions.

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Optica Laser Congress and Exhibition - 8-10 Oct 2023 - Tacoma, Washington, USA - Website

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing - 8-11 Oct 2023 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Website

244th Electrochemical Society Meeting - 8-12 Oct 2023 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Website

SPIE/COS Photonics Asia - 14-16 Oct 2023 - Beijing, China - Website

ASNT Annual Conference - 22-26 Oct 2023 - Houston, Texas, USA - Website

SPIE Photonex - 24-26 Oct 2023 - Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Website

BioPhotonics Conference - 24-26 Oct 2023 - Online - Website 

OPTO Taiwan - 25-27 Oct 2023 - Taipei, Taiwan - Website 

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SPIE Photonics Industry Summit - 27 Sep 2023 - Washington, DC, USA - Website

2023 International Conference on IC Design and Technology - 25-27 Sep 2023 - Tokyo, Japan - Website

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Image Sensors World is pleased to introduce its compiled list of conferences and exhibitions that include image sensor topics and products. The range includes everything from device physics and designs to applications and test. Included are on-site meetings, on-line webinars and various sorts of hybrid and archived events.

Because many meetings keep the presented materials available on-line for extended periods, each event will remain in the listings for one year or until the next session of the event occurs, whichever is shorter. New events will be listed as soon as they are announced and grouped by the month the event is scheduled to begin.

The ISW list will be broader than the individual posts announcing events that ar4e focused on image sensor such as the IISW or some of the IEEE meetings. Those posts will continue to assure that ISW readers are aware of them in time to submit papers or make travel plans.

Building the list will take some time so the postings will be added in chronological order with those scheduled soonest first. Listings will be brief, giving the sponsor, event name, location, dates and a link to the event website.  Note that often the links change as the date of the event approaches. Occasionally, additional information will be supplied that affects who can attend - security clearance or membership requirements, for example.

Most events require payment for attendance to technical sessions and some charge for exhibits. These listings will not include the costs because those are often contingent on time, membership, discounts and other factors. See the event websites for registration details. 

Finally, if you are reading the listings looking for opportunities to exhibit your products, those with associated exhibitions will usually have exhibitor information sections on their websites. Please consult them as early as possible. Many popular shows are sold out long before the event begins and some require reservations years in advance.

Feel free to post comments on the shows - your experiences or plans - and let us know if you are aware of an event ISW should list.

The index to the monthly lists is here.

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The Conference Lists are sorted by month. Here is an index of the currently active months. Click the month to see the list.

2023:

September - October - November - December

2024:

January

2025:

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We are pleased to introduce a new feature of the ISW blog, an archive of data sheets and other documents related to image sensor products. A recent survey of blog readers indicated that many of you would like access to a location where both historical and current data sheets, application notes, test data and other documents describing image sensors released to the market are available for download.  The new archive will provide this.

Image sensors have been made by over 200 companies since manufacturing began in the early 1970s and new ones appear almost every day now. I will attempt to both fill in the past and keep the archive current but catching up will take a while. Please comment if you have priorities you would like me to consider. Also comment if you have recollections that might interest the newer members of the image sensor community.

All of the documents will be stored on a Google Drive account with open access.  This means that documents that are export-controlled, mostly for thermal sensors, will not be included. To get to the Drive folders, you need only to click a company link on the blog post that comes up when you select "Image Sensor Documentation" from the list on the left of the blog front page.  Download whatever you like.

If you have anything you would like to contribute, send me an e-mail and we can make an arrangement. While we are interested in more than just data sheets, we can't post any company confidential information even if the company is out of the image sensor business or no longer exists.

As I add new companies to the archive, I will post announcements with a link to the company folder and a little background on the company.  Again, feel free to comment if you have something interesting to add. Note that the companies and their documents will be identified by the company name in use when each sensor was introduced.  Thus, companies like OnSemi may have products under other names going all the way back to Photobit or IMEC or Kodak.

The first company up is Texas Instruments, active 1978-2011, making virtual-phase and electron-multiplying sensors invented by Jerry Hynecek. The post with the link to the TI documents is here.

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