Senseeker Expands Neon IC Family for SWIR Applications
July 17, 2024
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In a recent release, Senseeker, a company specializing in fabless semiconductor and cryogenic test solutions for digital imaging, announced that its new Neon RD0131 is now available.
The RD0131 advanced digital readout integrated circuit (DROIC) expands the Neon product family with the addition of a high definition 1280 x 1024 format.
"The new larger format size of the Neon RD0131 is a welcome addition to the Neon DROIC family,” said Dr. Martin H. Ettenberg, President and CEO, Princeton Infrared Technologies. “Senseeker’s approach to offering families of compatible products allows reuse of test equipment, electronics and software, greatly simplifying the development of new high-performance SWIR cameras and imagers that we provide for the Industrial, Scientific and Defense markets.”
The Neon RD0131 has been designed with a 1280 x 1024 format and 10 µm pitch, according to the announcement. It also has triple-gain modes with programmable well capacities of 22 ke-, 160 ke- and 1.1 Me-. The DROIC supports a read noise of 15 electrons at room temperature in high-gain, the company said.
“The Neon RD0131 CTIA DROIC is the second chip in our Neon product family that has proven to be a hit with customers that are developing solutions for low-light applications such as short-wave infrared (SWIR) and low-current technologies such as quantum dot-based detectors,” said Kenton Veeder, President, Senseeker. “We have included the popular features and operating modes that Senseeker is known for, including on-chip temperature monitoring and programmable multiple high-speed windows to observe and track targets at thousands of frames per second.”
The Neon RD0131 reportedly is available in full or quarter wafers now and is supported by Senseeker’s CoaxSTACK electronics kit, CamIRa imaging software and sensor test units (STUs) that, together, enable testing and evaluation of Neon-based focal plane arrays quickly and efficiently. Check it out here.
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