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A new MOS-type image sensor has been announced by Panasonic which has been designed to hold up to 20 years-worth of direct light exposure.

Taku Gobara, director of corporate application specific standard products division at Matsushita Electric Industrial (otherwise known as Panasonic), hailed the move, saying that it would result in his firm making a “significant contribution to our customers by creating new applications with this new sensor”.

By amalgamating both concentric rings and coloured filters, Panasonic has managed to create a new microlens which is able to gain a greater amount of light onto its photo diode area.

“We can also propose various market solutions like automobile and outdoor usages by making the most of its outstanding robustness,” Mr Gobara also said.

Panasonic goes on to explain that due to the digital microlens being created by a concentric ring formation of the inorganic material, “the light path of each digital-microlens can therefore readily be designed according to its relative position on the image area”.

This means that for any digital camera that has this new technology incorporated within it, sensitivity becomes uniform for the image area.