Organic image sensors sensitive to X-rays, visible and near infrared spectrum ranges
The company has produced several innovative organic image sensors, thereby confirming the potential of its thin film organic technology.
NikkoIA’s technology consists in depositing thin films of photosensitive organic materials onto active or passive reading substrates. Current products are mainly based on TFT backplanes on glass, with a sensitivity optimized in the visible and/or 700/900nm spectrum range. The first evaluation cameras based on these sensors have already been shipped to the company customers and two new product families are now feasible: X-ray sensitive image sensors based on 256×256, 98µm-pixels organic image sensors, coupled with a CsI scintillator optimized for 70-90keV energy, and VGA CMOS sensors with 15µm-pixels based on organic photodiodes and CMOS pixel arrays.
“The extension of the sensitivity to the X-rays range and the application of NikkoIA’s technology to various types of substrates (TFT or CMOS) enables, in the very short term, the production of large area visible, IR or X-rays image sensors at an extremely competitive cost structure compared to existing technologies, as well as the production of CMOS image sensors sensitive in the infrared beyond the cut-off wavelength of the silicon” said Alain Jutant, President of NikkoIA SAS.
These developments especially enable the production of image sensors immediately interesting for dental radiography and some security applications. They also enable other combinations such as the production of small size, high resolution, SWIR-sensitive CMOS image sensors at a very low cost structure, opening up new imaging solutions in the medical or automotive markets.
Organic image sensors sensitive to X-rays, visible CMOS VGA organic image sensor and near infrared spectrum ranges.
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