Sorry I could not report earlier, but my set of proceedings with hand-written notes is still in my lugage, which is lost by this wonderful airline, called DELTA ….<\/p>\n
What I do remember of the third day (based on looking through the program), it was\u00a0again a long day with a superb end :<\/p>\n
– there are still a few “pure CCD” developments announced, but the trend year after year is\u00a0to see and get less and less\u00a0“pure CCD” improvements.\u00a0 CCD research in a 100 % CCD process is really\u00a0becoming an exception.\u00a0 CCD advances were announced by TeledyneDALSA and LBNL Berkeley,<\/p>\n
– in contradiction to the previous statement, there were 3 “embedded CCDs in CMOS” reported by the following companies\/institutes ” imec,\u00a0TowerJazz (in cooperation with STFC Rutherford) and Espros, so is a pure CMOS device becoming a dinosaur as well ?<\/p>\n
– first technical results and progress was reported about the quanta imager researched at Dartmouth and at Rambus.\u00a0 If I remember well, the first time the quanta device (at that time still called jot) was announced was at IISW2005,<\/p>\n
– further improvements on organic CMOS was shown by Fujifilm in cooperation with Panasonic,<\/p>\n
– also\u00a0remarkable was the announcement of a research\u00a0cooperation between Panasonic and imec,\u00a0illustrated by\u00a0a 4k2k 60-fps imager with a stagger-laced dual-exposure technique,<\/p>\n
– two large areas devices were presented that can be found back in today’s DSLR products : one by Aptina (10.8\u00a0Mpixels, 1-inch format) and\u00a0one by CMOSIS (24 Mpixel, 36 mm x 24 mm),<\/p>\n
–\u00a0during the ToF session, major attention was paid on the issue of cancelling the background illumination,<\/p>\n
– hard to imagine, but the magic barrier of 1 Gfps seems\u00a0to come closer and closer : two solutions were introduced, one in CMOS technology, the other\u00a0one in a combined CCD-CMOS technology.<\/p>\n
At the end of day 3, we had\u00a0an invited talk by Mike Tompsett, for me (and many more) one of the highlights of the workshop 2013.\u00a0 Mike explained the hieararchical structure at Bell Labs at the time of the invention of the CCD, and it turned out that in 2009, OR the right people got the Noble Prize for the wrong invention, OR the wrong people got the Noble Prize for the right invention.\u00a0 The Noble Prize Committee gave out the Noble Prize for the Invention of the CCD Image Sensor.\u00a0 But the one who owns the patent with the same title is Mike Tompsett, and not his manager of his upper-management.\u00a0 In his explanation about the history of the invention of the CCD imager, Mike also included the important contribution of Gene Weckler and Peter Noble.\u00a0 Without their pioneering work in imaging there would never had been a CCD image sensor.\u00a0 A very impressive talk\u00a0by the \u00a0inventor of the CCD image sensor.\u00a0 BTW Mike authographed my copy of his book “Charge Transfer Devices”, which I bought in 1979.<\/p>\n
On Saturday night we had the traditional banquet with announcements and awards.\u00a0 The first (IISS) Exceptional\u00a0Lifetime Achievement Award\u00a0was handed out to Gene Weckler.\u00a0 Gene, almost 81 years old (or young ?), gave an overview of his imaging carreer.\u00a0 He\u00a0started somewhere in the ’60s with imaging, and ended in 2009, including the start-up of two companies.\u00a0 Gene is one of these giant, on whose shoulders we all are standing now.<\/p>\n
Albert, 19 June 2013.<\/p>\n
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