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  • Quantum Efficiency

    Quantum efficiency (QE) is the measure of the effectiveness of an imaging device to convert incident photons into electrons. For example, if a sensor had a QE of 100% and was exposed to 100 photons, it would produce 100 electrons of signal.

  • Dark Current

    The sensitivity of a scientific camera is vital, with insufficient sensitivity it may not even be possible to acquire clear images of your sample. At Teledyne Photometrics sensitivity is paramount and our approach to highly sensitive cameras is twofold: maximize signal collection, and minimize noise levels.

  • Binning

    There is often a focus on getting a suitable pixel size depending on the experiment, application, or microscopy technique. An easy way to change sensor pixel size is to combine pixels into larger ‘superpixels’, also known as binning, which can affect both the sensitivity and speed of a scientific camera depending on your camera type, whether CCD/EMCCD or CMOS.

  • Teledyne e2v recognized by Vision Systems Design 2021 Innovators Awards Program in several categories

    Grenoble, FRANCE/Seville, SPAIN, May 21, 2021 — Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies [NYSE: TDY] company and part of the Teledyne Imaging group, has been recognized as being amongst the best in machine vision by the judges of the Vision Systems Design 2021 Innovators Awards program.

  • Whole Live Organism Imaging

    The laboratory of Prof. Alex Hajnal study the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans, the nematode worm, in order to understand biological processes such as organogenesis, the mechanisms involved, and how these relate to other areas such as cancer research. Traditionally, C. elegans imaging is done by sandwiching the worms between glass slides and using drugs/chemicals to immobilize the worms for easier imaging.

  • Teledyne e2v Announces New 5 Mpixel, 1/1.8 inch CMOS Image Sensor for Machine Vision

    GRENOBLE, France, November 27, 2018 — Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies [NYSE: TDY] company and global innovator of vision solutions, announces the expansion of its Emerald family of CMOS image sensors with a new 5 Megapixel device.

  • Volocity® Software For Spinning Disk

    A confocal microscopy dataset or image “stack” contains all the information needed to perform 3D and 4D reconstruction of the imaged sample. However, this typically isn’t possible without image reconstruction software, which allows the user to take the raw data and use it to produce still images and videos from the dataset.

  • What Is Spinning Disk Confocal Microscopy?

    Typical fluorescence microscopy involves illuminating the entire sample and detecting the resulting fluorescence. Illuminating and detecting from the entire sample includes collection of out-of-focus light above and below the focal plane, causing blurriness and image degradation.

  • Cognex selects CMOS image sensors from e2v for industrial ID products

    e2v, a global provider of high performance imaging solutions, has announced that its innovative CMOS image sensors have been chosen by Cognex, a leading manufacturer of industrial ID cameras and systems, for their image-based reading products.

  • What Is Super-Resolution Microscopy?

    Light microscopes are used to observe and image objects that are too small for the human eye to see properly. However, there is also a limit to what these microscopes can see, as they are limited by the diffraction limit of light and can only observe/image samples that are larger than approximately 200 nm in size.

  • Five Reasons Why The Kinetix sCMOS Has An 8-Bit Mode

    When imaging with the whole sensor, the Kinetix sCMOS runs at 500 fps in 8-bit mode. This makes 8-bit mode an easy choice for imaging dynamic live samples or for applications that require high speed such as light sheet microscopy, calcium and voltage imaging!

  • iSCAT Microscopy

    Interferometric scattering (iSCAT) allows for sensitive non-fluorescent detection of nano-scale samples, such as particles as small as 5 nm in diameter. This fills an important niche in biological imaging, allowing the detection of single nano-objects such as viruses, DNA, and proteins.