InVisage Technologies, a new 75-person startup has developed a new technology named Quantum Dots that will drastically improve the quality of smartphone cameras upon its deployment in the first quarter of 2016.
Jess Lee, Chief Executive and co-founder of InVisage Technologies, stated that “It’s revolutionary on a number of fronts” in a tweet, before offering that new chips with quantum dot technology will outdo today’s image-sensor technology.
Quantum Dots technology differ from silicon-based image sensor chips; Quantum Film instead uses a super-thin layer of light sensitive quantum dots; each dot is made of a semiconducting material which, depending on its environment, either will or won’t conduct electricity. Further, different dot sizes are sensitive to particular colors of light.
Presently, silicon-based image sensors rely on light striking each of millions of pixels on the sensor, before electrical charge builds up and circuitry converts that charge into image data.
The implementation of Quantum Dots, then, will see a better dynamic range – the difference between the darkest shadows and brightest highlights – and will be able to process images at brightness levels that would otherwise overwhelm a normal silicon sensor.
Lee posits that Quantum Dots will represent the next frontier in camera sensor technology, citing that there is no similar technology out there. However, InVisage Technologies will have to go head-to-head against giants such as Sony to successfully penetrate the image sensor market.
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