WE PARTNER WITH OUR CUSTOMERS TO IMPROVE, SAVE AND PROTECT PEOPLE’S LIVES Not all imaging sensors are created equal ! APAC Innovation Summit – August 25 th 2016 Giuseppe Borghi & Vincent Hector
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Not all imaging sensors
are created equal !
APAC Innovation Summit – August 25th 2016
Giuseppe Borghi & Vincent Hector
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e2v Group
About us
Bringing life to technology, e2v partners with its customers to improve, save and protect people’s lives.
Delivering innovative technology for high performance systems and equipment, e2v leads developments in communications, automation, discovery, healthcare and the environment.
e2v puts customers at the centre of everything that it does, helping them to meet the needs of their customers.
FOUNDED IN 1947 ANNUAL SALES OF £236M
1750 EMPLOYEES 500+ ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS
OPERATIONAL FACILITIES IN EUROPE, THE US AND ASIA
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Operations and Sales Annual Turnover 2015-2016 £236M
RF Power £80.5m
Two million people are in receipt of life-saving radiotherapy treatments around the world through the use of e2v products.
Semiconductors £52.4m
Our data converters operate in the harshest of aerospace environments, powering satellite communication systems handling 10,000 fully encrypted broadband lines a second.
Imaging £103.5m
With almost 40 years’ experience in designing and delivering against imaging requirements, we enable all the most challenging imaging needs for Ground and in Space applications.
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Professional
Two streams within Imaging
RF Power Semiconductors
Space
RF Power Imaging Semicondutor
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OUR CAPABILITIES
Courtesy of CNES 2012
Courtesy of CNES 2012
Space Imaging Enabling Science and Earth imaging to see further
• CCD & CMOS sensors for ground and space
• Focal plane arrays, cameras & subsystems
• Space-qualified supply chain management
• High sensitivity ‘electron multiplying’ technology
• From visible to x-ray, ultraviolet and IR
• Long term customer support
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The Palm island Dubai
e2v inside CNES Pleaides 1A satellite.
Copyright :© CNES, 2011
Pleiades – (CCD98) Dubai, Zoom
Looking down to Earth very precisely: (well) below 1 meter resolution
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The Churyumov-Gerasimenko Comet
e2v inside ESA Rosetta deep space probe
Copyright : © ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Who would have thought that a comets or Pluto look like this?
Pluto
e2v inside NASA New Horizon deep space probe
Copyright : © NASA/JHU APL/SwRI
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• Size
• Sensitivity
• Robustness
• Reliability
• Price ….
Difference between cameras in a smartphone and a satellite
Copyright : © SONY/SAMSUNG
Copyright : © NASA
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Do you know the CMOS Rolling shutter effect ? This issue exists on most of consumers small pixels Not compatible with fast scanning applications
We design and manufacture dedicated sensors and solutions for all these markets. We called them niches but last year we sold more than millions of imaging sensors
In the professional applications, We observe the same specifics
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Linescan sensors and cameras are dedicated to moving scenes They can scan food falling to be sorted, fast moving objects in factories, And are the devices used for…
Much faster, more specific: Linescan example
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Improving lives How can we make medical diagnosis technology affordable to emerging countries? Automate painful and dangerous tasks? Improve the efficiency of manufacturing to increase product affordability and reliability? Improve the inspection of food and medicines?
Saving lives How can we accelerate the discovery of new drugs? Facilitate the discovery of new materials to be used in artificial organs? Diagnose illnesses/injuries more quickly?
Protecting lives How can we recognise threats even without light/at night? Better see pedestrians in bad weather or at night? Improve the security of people operating with robots in future factories? Reduce the radiation doses in X-ray diagnosis?
Professional Imaging
Your innovation partner to improve, save and protect people’s lives.