overlying the swir photodiodes is connected to each of the swir photodiodes application_number US 201615222786 A description refer now to fig1 which is a top view of a portion of a hybrid image sensor according to one embodiment of the present invention hbis 20 includes a two dimensional array of pixels organized as a plurality of rows and columns the vis pixels include pixels that are sensitive to light in the visual range of the optical spectrum such as pixel 21 and swir pixels that are sensitive in the short wavelength region of the optical spectrum such as pixel 22 it should be noted that there are many more rows and columns of pixels than those shown in fig1 to simplify the drawing only a 4 u00d7 4 sub array is shown for the purposes of the present discussion a swir pixel sensor is defined to be a pixel sensor that converts light having wavelengths between 1 1 u03bcm and 2 u03bcm to an electrical signal that depends on the intensity of that light a vis pixel sensor is defined to be a pixel sensor that converts light having wavelengths between 400 nm and 900 nm to an electrical signal that depends on the intensity of that light refer now to fig2 which is a cross sectional.