On-chip compensation of dark current in infrared focal plane arrays

ISCAS 2001 - 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2001, Pages 509-512

  Ng, M W ^a   Chee, Y H ^a   Xu, Y P ^a   Karunasiri, G ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS SENSORS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; COMPENSATION CIRCUITS; CORRELATED DOUBLE SAMPLING; FIXED PATTERN NOISE; INFRARED FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; LIGHT ILLUMINATION; VOLTAGE-TO-CURRENT CONVERTERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INFRARED DETECTORS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; LIGHTING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS; INFRARED IMAGING;

CORRELAYED DOUBLE SAMPLING (CDS); FIXED PATTERN ARRAYS (FPA); FOCAL PLANE ARRAYS (FPA);

EID: 0034998506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.921359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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