Hybrid infrared focal plane signal and noise model

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 96-108

  Johnson, Jerris F ^a  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Focal plane arrays; Infrared detectors; Infrared image sensors; Noise; Photodetectors

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; INFRARED DETECTORS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTODETECTORS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CORRELATED DOUBLE SAMPLERS (CDS); FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; READOUT INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ROIC);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032760878     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.737447     Document Type: Article

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