Bart Dierickx (Co-Founder and CTO) and Ajit Kalgi (Senior Analog Designer) invented a method to increase the charge collection, thus image lag, of a very long narrow photodiode. The N-type pinned photodiode (PPD) itself is constant in width and homogenous in
The rise of custom-made sensors
Read the Q&A with Bart Dierickx published in the October edition of MVPro – Machine Vision & Automation where shares his insight into the development of image sensors.
Caeleste wins the 2020 Export Lion Awards

This prize is rewarded each year by the Flanders Investment & Trade to Flanders-based firms with exceptional achievements in terms of export and international business. To receive this award does not only confirm that advanced knowledge and extensive specialization can
A leap forward in experimental neuroscience
The collaboration between Paradromics and Caeleste has resulted in the largest ever recording in the cortex of a sheep. More than 31,000 electrode potentials were recorded simultaneously showing the reaction of the animal to auditory stimuli. Caeleste designed the low-noise,
We are nominated for the Leeuw van de Export 2020 awards
Caeleste is nominated by Flanders Investment & Trade in recognition of our activities all around the globe. As a selected candidate, Caeleste has to compete with 2 other Flemish companies in the category of small companies (<50 employees). The award ceremony
Caeleste patents “sparse readout” method
US patent US10616521 was granted on April 7, 2020. It protects a system and a method to detect radiation in an array of pixels and reading out only the pixels or groups of pixels that contain information. Read more
Caeleste strengthens the management team

Caeleste is strengthening its business development team by hiring Jeroen Hoet as new Chief Business Development Officer, leading Caeleste’s marketing and sales department. Based in Belgium, Jeroen is well known in the semiconductor industry and has gained deep knowledge on
Caeleste patents a true charge domain binning method
Thereby removing the second last (*) stronghold of CCD as compared to CMOS. The purpose of binning is to collect the photo charges of a small kernel of pixels into a single charge packet, reading it out in a single
The Mars Webcam Interview: development, challenges and unique features of a camera in space
Caeleste and Advacam announced their collaboration on the development of a Hybrid Visible CMOS image sensor for future space and science missions.
The combination of Advacam’s advanced capabilities in hybridization of Silicon on Silicon and Caeleste’s image sensor know-how for space applications allows ESA to start the project AO/1-9801/19/NL/AR “Development of a Hybrid Visible Image Sensor”. Hybrid image sensor technology makes the