Performance analysis of a 127-micron pixel large-area TFT/photodiode array with boosted fill factor

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5368, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 338-348

  Weisfield, Richard L ^a   Yao, William ^a   Speaker, Tycho ^a   Zhou, Kungang ^a   Colbeth, Richard E ^b   Proano, Cesar ^b  

^a dpiX LLC   (United States)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

a Si; Clamping circuit; Fill factor; Image sensor; Large area array; nip photodiode; TFT; X ray detector

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CAPACITANCE; CLAMPING DEVICES; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODIODES; RADIATION DETECTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

A-SI; CLAMPING CIRCUITS; FILL FACTOR; LARGE-AREA ARRAYS; NIP PHOTODIODES; THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS (TFT); X-RAY DETECTORS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 3042637402     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.535896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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