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The Foveon chip has three layers of photosensitive semiconductor junctions. The lowest layer is sensitive to Red light, the next layer being sensitive to both Red and Green Light. The final, top layer is sensitive to Red, Green and Blue light. In order to measure the level of Green light, it is necessary to subtract the output of the Red junction from the output of the Green junction. Similarly the output of the Blue junction has to have the output of the Green junction subtracted from it. This has interesting repercussions for the thermal noise generated in the junctions.