French startup NikkoIA SAS to enter infrared imaging market
The company takes advantage of an innovative technology developed by Siemens Corporate Technology, which it says, provides a significant cost benefit over existing near infrared sensors, and whose technical specifications enable the development of new applications on its target markets.
NikkoIA is to combine both organic and inorganic materials sensitive to specific wavelengths, deposited as thin film layers onto industry-standard electronic substrates to deliver high-performance and cost-optimized sensors. This new approach enables the company to design sensors of flexible sizes (up to several hundreds of square centimeter), shape, sensitivity and resolution. The simplified manufacturing process can bring a technical answer to nearly any requirement. The process compatibility with any reading substrates (CMOS, amorphous Silicon thin-film transistor backplanes or printed electronics in the future) ensures leverage from the latest technical developments and the best market costs, says the company which has already built and tested functional sensor prototypes.
" Our labs are recognized worldwide for developing disruptive technologies " said Dr Joachim Wecker, leader Global Technology Field « Organic Electronics » at Siemens Corporate Technology. « We wanted to make the most out of 10 years of research and experience on these organic photodetectors and photodiodes. The proposed project and the motivation of NikkoIA’s founding team convinced us they are the right people for this » he added. « Our vision consists in mastering the photodetection layer, as a key element of our know-how and products, and in considering related electronic reading systems as commodities », explains Alain Jutant, NikkoIA SAS President. « With Siemens technology at the core of the imaging device, this agreement provides a strong intellectual property on our core competencies ».
NikkoIA SAS and Siemens AG have signed a worldwide and exclusive license agreement on an extensive patents portfolio, either already granted or in the process of being so. This agreement is completed by a transfer of technology and know-how from Siemens AG to NikkoIA SAS to speed up the industrialization phase.
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