News
- Titlee2v wins Queen's award for Enterprise for L3Vision™ Innovation
- Date21 April 2006
Essex-based technology innovator e2v technologies has once again been recognised for technical excellence in product design and manufacture. Adding to previous awards for innovation and export achievement, e2v has today been awarded its 12th Queen’s Award for Enterprise. The Award was granted in the Innovation category, for the design and manufacture of imaging sensors and cameras used in aerospace, medical and scientific imaging systems.
The winning technology is used in e2v’s expanding range of L3Vision™ Charge Coupled Device (CCD) sensors. These sensors can achieve outstanding performance in low light conditions enabling new advances in life science research. The technology also allows high resolution imaging for astronomical, surveillance, reconnaissance and security applications and is supplied either as sensors for further integration into customers’ camera systems or as complete cameras.
e2v technologies Imaging Sensors Group designs and manufactures CCD sensors for the world’s most innovative space, medical and scientific imaging systems. e2v’s CCDs are high performance versions of the semiconductor imaging devices used in digital cameras, camcorders and mobile phones. e2v uses its expertise in semiconductor imager design and manufacturing to optimise the CCD to meet leading edge performance requirements for customers like NASA and ESA among others. In simple terms, this increases the sensitivity of a standard CCD by a factor of 1000 allowing very low light levels to be detected.
e2v’s CEO Keith Attwood commented: “Our engineering capabilities and product design push imaging technology capabilities to a new level. It is great for this expertise to be recognised by this prestigious award. I am proud of the contribution that e2v and its people makes to the global imaging market. ”
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious awards for business performance. The Innovation category of these awards is key for recognising companies that have demonstrated commercial success through innovative products or services.
e2v supplies the key enabling technologies that consistently push scientific boundaries forward, ultimately improving the quality and safety of our lives. Innovation in sensing technologies requires very high levels of insight and discrimination, particularly in materials science. e2v technologies is expert at both harnessing its own intellectual property and sharing that expertise with customer partners to deliver market-leading end products and systems.
