Benelux LMAG visit to Caeleste - Beyond State-of-the-Art Custom Image Sensors
Caeleste is a supplier of turn-key, high-end, beyond state-of-the-art CMOS image sensors. Its activities include custom image sensor design, manufacture, assembly and characterization. Caeleste is the originator of many novel concepts as high-speed, low-noise image sensors, indirect X-ray detectors with photon counting, color X-ray sensors, and sub-0.2 noise electron read noise CMOS pixels.
Caeleste focuses on:
- Image sensors for scientific imaging and instrumentation
- Medical imaging direct or indirect X-ray photon conversion
- Particle detection (electrons – HE physics)
- Industrial image sensors
- Space and Astronomy
- Radiation hard design and cryogenic design
- Photonic devices for life science applications
Program
- 13:00 : Welcome and small sandwich lunch
- 14:00 : Company Introduction
- 14:15 : Presentation of applications and principles of Caeleste sensors (Bart Dierickx, CTO)
- 15:00 : Company, Test- & Measurement lab tour
- 16:00 : End
Registration
Participation to this event is free of charge for LMAG members. Other participants registration fee: 20 Euro. Please register by preference online or by sending an email to LMAG secretary: Kees van ‘t Klooster C.G.v.t.Klooster@tue.nl before 23 February 2024. The amount of participants is limited to 20. Registrations will be handled in a first come, first serve principle, but with precendence for IEEE Benelux LMAG members.
In as far as permitted by the host organization, in this event pictures and videos could be recorded for use in reports and publications on the event and IEEE LMAG activities. In case you do not agree to be photographed or appear on videos recorded, please indicate this explicitly together with this registration via email to the IEEE Benelux Section LMAG secretary: Kees van 't Klooster C.G.v.t.Klooster@tue.nl at least one day before the event starts.
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- Hendrik Consciencestraat, 1 b
- Mechelen, Vlaams Brabant
- Belgium 2800
- Building: 3rd Floor
- Starts 07 January 2026 11:00 PM UTC
- Ends 17 February 2026 11:00 PM UTC
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Caeleste Founder & CTO Bart Dierickx of Caeleste
Biography:
In 1984 Bart Dierickx obtained his MS Electronic Engineering at the KU Leuven and in 1990 his PhD at the same university on the topic of deep cryogenic operation and 1/f noise in CMOS circuits.
He started as a CCD designer at the ESAT department of KU Leuven in 1983. This group merged into IMEC in 1984, where Dierickx pioneered using CMOS as an alternative to CCD from 1984 onwards. In 2000 he Co-founded FillFactory, and after acquisition became CTO of Cypress Imaging in 2005. He left to create Caeleste in 2006. Since then he serves as the CTO of Caeleste.
Over the years he has developed and supervised the design process of hundreds of image sensors, published plenty of papers and is inventor of about 50 patents in the domain of image sensing.
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