Quantum Film - CMOS Image Sensor Killer?

This is kind of off topic, but since image sensors are among the first commercial success stories for vertical integration, I thought that it was worth noting.  InVisage Technologies, Inc. has announced the development of a "quantum film" that represents a dramatic improvement over current technologies.  According to the story in EETimes, the InVisage process involves suspending lead-sulfide nanoparticles in a polymer matrix.  Here's the pertinent bit from the story:

The new semiconducting material was invented by Univeristy [sic] of Toronto professor Ted Sargent, who is now chief technology officer at InVisage.  Sargent perfected a method of suspending lead-sulfide nanoparticles in a polymer matrix to form a new class of semiconducting polymer that Invisage has spent the last three years integrating into a standard CMOS process.  Now it can paint quantum film atop a low-cost wafer that has the electrode array for super-dense high-pixel-count images, but without any of the expensive CMOS photodetectors that make up the bulk of conventional digital camera sensors.

And, yes, I realize that titles of this post and the EETimes story are both hopelessly misleading, at least from a system perspective.  InVisage's quantum film could replace the CMOS photon detectors.  However, unless I'm really missing something in the story, it won't replace the rest of the circuitry required to collect, and process, the resulting electrons.

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