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In Search of the Ultimate Image Sensor

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Chip makers contemplate the 100-megapixel image sensor. Physics says it's possible, but is it practical or even desirable?

Brian L. Benamati

The mainstream in image sensors for high-end studio photography has been 6-megapixel CCDs, and the market is now adopting 16.8-megapixel image sensors as the new reference standard. The semiconductor processes used to manufacture sensors can achieve increasingly smaller pixels and larger sensors for even higher-density chips. The market requirements for image quality and the practical considerations of camera systems, however, must be understood to answer the question: What will be the "ultimate" image sensor of days to come? Marketplace dynamics will strongly drive the evolution of...Read full article

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