Expanding SWIR Imaging with Quantum Dot Technology

Quantum dot-based image sensors and cameras support a broad spectral range (400–2000 nm) and high dynamic range, making them applicable to industrial machine vision, defense, and hyperspectral imaging. This presentation explores wafer-level packaging (WLP) as a method for enabling high-volume, low-cost production of next-generation devices.

The technology is expected to enhance the adoption of SWIR imaging across industrial, defense, and surveillance applications and ultimately consumer electronics. A custom CMOS ROIC (readout integrated circuit) design supports targeted application development, while the compact sensor size and reduced weight broaden its range of use cases.

About the presenter
Samiul Haque, Ph.D., is a senior product and marketing manager, and one of the co-founding members and staff at Emberion. The current company manufacturers infrared image sensors and cameras based on quantum dots. He has been focusing on technical product management and commercial aspects of Emberion, dealing with product specification, roadmaps and variants, thought leadership strategy, innovation pipeline development and leading the marketing aspects. Haque has keen interest on application domains of SWIR and thermal sensor-based cameras using quantum dots. He is additionally managing the IP portfolio of the company.

Before joining Emberion, the independent spin off from Nokia 2016, he worked in various multidisciplinary areas of research and design at Nokia technologies as a senior researcher. Haque led projects related to flexible, printed and stretchable electronics, touch sensors, designed novel RF antennas, and graphene-based sensors & wearable devices. He has developed multiple novel techniques of developing 2D material-based devices using printed electronics, and his background is in nanomaterials and nanodevice fabrication (electronics engineer), characterization of sensors and devices. Haque has filed more than 40 patents in the relevant field, published in international journals and trade press. He has a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK, related to CMOS Gas sensors using carbon nanotubes.