SIT Image Sensor: Design Considerations and Characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1986, Pages 735-742

  Yusa, Atsushi ^a   Nishizawa, Jun Ichi ^a   Imai, Masaharu ^a   Yamada, Hidetoshi ^a   Nakamura, Jun Ichi ^b   Mizoguchi, Toyokazu ^a   Ohta, Yoshinori ^a   Takayama, Michio ^a  

^a OLYMPUS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; SOLID STATE DEVICES; TRANSISTORS;

SINGLE SIT/PIXEL STRUCTURE; SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICE; STATIC INDUCTION TRANSISTOR (SIT);

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0022736072     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1986.22562     Document Type: Article

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