Vertically integrated amorphous silicon color sensor arrays

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1551-1558

  Knipp, Dietmar ^a,b   Street, Robert A ^a   Stiebig, Helmut ^c   Krause, Mathias ^c,d   Lu, Jing Ping ^a   Ready, Steve ^a   Ho, Jackson ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amorphous silicon; Color sensor; Optical sensor; Thin film electronics

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ARRAYS; COLOR; IMAGE QUALITY; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; THIN FILMS;

COLOR SENSOR; INTEGRATED AMORPHOUS SILICON; LINE SPREAD FUNCTION; SENSOR ARRAYS; THIN FILM ELECTRONICS;

OPTICAL SENSORS;

EID: 33745684390     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2006.875822     Document Type: Article

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