Siemens has signed an exclusive licence agreement for its organic photodetector technology with imaging firm NikkoIA.
The agreement is for a worldwide and exclusive licence of an extensive patents portfolio. The French start-up will use Siemens' organic photodetectors and photodiodes in its own range of multispectral image sensors for the visible and near-infrared spectrum. The technology supplied through the licence offers a significant cost benefit, reports Photonics Online. Siemens' process of creating the photodiodes using spray coating for the organic layer allows for thickness as required. Thicker layers result in lower dark currents, and higher quantum efficiency.
The combination of both organic and inorganic materials sensitive to specific wavelengths and deposited as thin film layers onto industry-standard electronic substrates leads to high-performance and cost-optimised sensors. Functional sensor prototypes have already been built and tested.
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Photonics Online report
Siemens AG Exclusively Licenses Imaging Technology To NikkoIA SAS
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