The Invention of CMOS Image Sensors: A Camera in Every Pocket

Abstract

As of 2020, CMOS image sensors are expected to enable the production of about 200 cameras every second around the world, or over 6 billion per year. In this talk, the story of how we got here is briefly presented, from CCDs, to the invention of the CMOS image sensor at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1990s, to the present.