DALSA Semiconductor has built a 111-megapixel CCD (charge coupled device) image sensor. The sensor surface is about 4 inches square and offers 10,560 by 10,560 pixels, giving it a resolution of more than 111 million pixels. The chip, which was developed by Semiconductor Technology Associates, will be used by the astrometry department of the U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO). The USNO will use the chip in tracking the positions and movements of stars and other celestial bodies, according to a statement released by DALSA.
Last May, Wayne Rosing, then Google's vice president of engineering, left his post for the University of California at Davis to help develop the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). The 3-billion pixel digital camera will study dark matter and dark energy in the galaxies. This May, the Cerro Pach?n mountain peak in Chile was chosen as the site for the LSST. Completion is predicted for 2012.
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
