Future for digital snapshots looks crisp

Digital photos may soon look as clear as pictures taken with conventional 35-millimeter film because of a new image sensor with twice the number of pixels found in today’s digital cameras.

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Richard L. Baer
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road
MS2U/19
Palo Alto, CA 94304

Herman L. Peek
Philips Semiconductors Image Sensors
MS WAG-11
Prof. Holstlaan 4
5656 AA Eindhoven
Netherlands

Robert K. Reich
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lincoln Laboratory, ML-201
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420

James C. Sturm
Princeton University
Center for Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials
Princeton, NJ 08544

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 25 & 26, December 18 & 25, 1999, p. 388. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.