DALSA Corporation Achieves Breakthrough in Quantum Efficiency With New “High Quanta” CCD Image Sensors

WATERLOO, ON--(Marketwire - December 05, 2007) - DALSA Corporation (TSX: DSA) today announced the availability of the High Quanta family of sensors tailored for scientific, life sciences, and astronomy applications. DALSA's High Quanta sensors are large format area sensors that provide a new benchmark in imaging performance. Using advanced fabrication techniques to realize smaller CCD transistor structures, these sensors achieve incredible improvements in noise performance and quantum efficiency (QE); peaking at more than 75%. The new sensors also employ the latest designs in output amplifiers providing exceptionally low noise at high data rates.