CCD On-Chip Amplifiers: Noise Performance versus MOS Transistor Dimensions

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 1206-1216

  Centen, Peter ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, MOS; TRANSISTORS, FIELD EFFECT;

MOS TRANSISTORS; ON-CHIP AMPLIFIERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, CHARGE COUPLED;

EID: 0026154081     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.78399     Document Type: Article

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