Wide-dynamic-range sensors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1650-1660

  Yadld Pecht, Orly ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MOSFET DEVICES; PHOTODIODES; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; DETECTOR ARRAYS; SEMICONDUCTOR IMAGE SENSOR;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 0033317115     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.602253     Document Type: Article

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