Ultra-high-speed imaging technology is essential for elucidating extremely rapid phenomena such as shock waves, dielectric breakdown, and plasma, and further improvements in image sensor performance are anticipated.
A research team led by Professor Masato Kuroda at the Tohoku University Future Science and Technology Collaborative Research Center has developed a burst-type CMOS image sensor with a global shutter mechanism capable of a readout speed of 6 trillion pixels per second. This sensor simultaneously achieves a frame rate of 20 million frames per second, 300,000 pixels, 256 frames of continuous recording, and a parasitic light sensitivity of -170 dB.
This achievement has already been commercialized as the HyperVision™ HPV™-X3 high-speed video camera system and is expected to serve as a foundational technology for elucidating various high-speed phenomena across a wide range of research and development fields.
Details of the development technology were announced on December 10, 2025, at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM2025), an international conference held in San Francisco, USA.
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