2001 Volume 21 Issue 1Supplement Pages 59-62
An high speed video camera of 1, 000, 000 fps is under development. A series of test image sensors for the camera have been designed, fabricated and tested. The sensor is an ISIS, In-situ Storage Image Sensor, which stores image signals generated on each pixel in a storage area nearby to the pixel during an image capturing phase, and release them out of the sensor during a readout phase after the image capturing. The ISIS-VU was only to test the charge transfer rate to realize the target frame rate, 1, 000, 000 fps, and some optical characteristics; the ISIS-V1 was fabricated to check the basic performance and to actually capture continuous images of 16 frames at the frame rate; the ISIS-V2 is a prototype sensor, which is mounted on a mock-up camera under development; the ISIS-V3 under basic design will be the final target sensor of the project with high performance. The development process and performances achieved so far are briefly described.
