Senior Technical Fellow, Image Sensor
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Dan McGrath has over 45 years of experience in pixel device physics—CCD, CIS, and ToF—and in integrating image-sensor process enhancements into manufacturing. His career covers the full spectrum of image-sensor design: small consumer pixels; large, high-sensitivity pixels; sensors for infrared through visible to gamma rays; and particle detection. His recent work focuses on photon counting for night vision, scientific, and time-of-flight applications, and he has maintained a long-standing interest in dark current. Dan is Senior Technology Fellow for Image Sensors at TechInsights, working in reverse engineering, and is also a visiting researcher at ISAE Supaero in Toulouse, studying dark current in quantum image sensors. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University. Dan has advanced image-sensor technology through roles at Texas Instruments, Polaroid, Imaging Devices, Atmel, Eastman Kodak, Aptina, BAE Systems, and GOODiX, collaborating with fabs in the USA, France, Italy, and Taiwan. His publications include the first megapixel CCD, the foundations of dark current spectroscopy, and recent work on dark current in quantum image sensors.