Nobukazu Teranishi

Nobukazu Teranishi (* 1953 in Japan ) is a Japanese physicist , known for the invention of the pinned photodiode ('PPD). It is the most commonly used photodector structure in CCD and CMOS image sensors.

Teranishi studied physics at the University of Tokyo and was with the NEC Corporation from 1978 . In 1980 he invented the PPD there (naming 1984), which is widely used in digital cameras . It reduced the pixel size compared to the CCD sensor . In 2000 he moved from NEC to Panasonic , where he stayed until 2013. He is a professor at Hyogo Prefectural University and Shizuoka University .

In 2017 he received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with Eric Fossum , George Elwood Smith and Michael Tompsett for the development of digital image sensors .

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and received its JJ Ebers Award in 2013 . He has also received medals from the Royal Photographic Society (2010) and the Photographic Society of America (2011) and the Yamazaki Teeichi Award (2013) from the Foundation for Promotion of Material Science and Technology of Japan (MST).

Fonts

N. Teranishi, A. Kohono, Y. Ishihara, E. Oda, K. Arai: No image lag photodiode structure in the interline CCD image sensor, in: Proc. IEDM, December 1982, pp. 324-327
N. Teranishi, H. Watanabe, T. Ueda, N. Sengoku: Evolution of optical structure in image sensors, in: Proc. IEDM, December 2012, pp. 533-536.

Web links

Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering to Teranishi

Individual evidence

↑ Eric Fossum, A review of the pinned photo diode for CCD and CMOS image sensors, IEEE Journal of the Electronic Devices Society, Volume 2, 2013, p. 33.

personal data
SURNAME	Teranishi, Nobukazu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Japan

[1] Eric Fossum, A review of the pinned photo diode for CCD and CMOS image sensors, IEEE Journal of the Electronic Devices Society, Volume 2, 2013, p. 33.