“Best Paper Award” at the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2011)

A collaborative effort between the KIOS researchers, Dr Julius Georgiou and Charalambos Andreou, and the Sensory Communications Group of Professor Andreas Andreou, of Johns Hopkins University, has led to the design and fabrication of the world’s lowest power image sensor. The chip was fabricated in a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company process, via EUROPRACTICE ( http://www.europractice-ic.com). The resulting image sensor was presented at the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2011), and was awarded a Best Paper Award. The power drain of this image sensor is so small that it can take 20 photos per second continuously for 250 days when powered on a small hearing aid battery!