NikkoIA announces the production of several innovative organic image sensors that shows the potential of its technology, and validates the technology building blocks that can be immediately implemented to build its product lines.
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 optimised 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.
NikkoIA announces the application of its organic imaging technology to two new product families:
- X-ray sensitive image sensors, based on 256×256, 98µm-pixels organic image sensors, coupled with a CsI scintillator optimized for 70-90keV energy
- VGA CMOS sensors with 15µm-pixels based on organic photodiodes and CMOS pixel arrays
Alain Jutant, President of NikkoIA, said, "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" Alain added, "These milestones reinforce our technology potential and validate our development strategy. They represent significant achievements that can now be implemented in products dedicated to our target markets"
