A 1/4-inch 330k square pixel progressive scan CMOS active pixel image sensor

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2042-2046

  Iida, Yoshinori ^a,b,c   Oba, Eiji ^a,d   Mabuchi, Keiji ^a   Nakamura, Nobuo ^a   Miura, Hiroki ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

APS; CMOS; Floating diffusion amplifier; Imager; Layout; Pixel; Sensor

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSISTORS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS (APS); FLOATING DIFFUSION AMPLIFIERS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0031381630     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.643662     Document Type: Article

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