A binary photodetector array for position sensing

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-53

  Mäkynen, Anssi ^a   Rahkonen, Timo ^a   Kostamovaara, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensors; CMOS; Position sensitive detectors

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL SENSORS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS (PSD);

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0032002327     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(97)01662-2     Document Type: Article

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