High-performance CMOS buffered gate modulation input (BGMI) readout circuits for IR FPA

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1188-1197

  Hsieh, Chih Cheng ^b   Wu, Chung Yu ^a,b,d,e,f,g   Sun, Tai Ping ^c   Jih, Far Wen ^c   Cherng, Ya Tung ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^d Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^e National Science Council   (Taiwan)

^f National Science Council ^*  (United States)

^g Chinese Engineer Association   (China)

Author keywords

Detector; Fixed pattern noise; Infrared imaging; IR focal plane array; Readout circuits

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; MODULATION; PERFORMANCE;

GATE MODULATION;

READOUT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032140468     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.705357     Document Type: Article

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