Stacked image sensor with green- and red-sensitive organic photoconductive films applying zinc oxide thin-film transistors to a signal readout circuit

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2570-2576

  Aihara, Satoshi ^a   Seo, Hokuto ^a   Namba, Masakazu ^a   Watabe, Toshihisa ^a   Ohtake, Hiroshi ^a   Kubota, Misao ^a   Egami, Norifumi ^a   Hiramatsu, Takahiro ^b   Matsuda, Tokiyoshi ^b   Furuta, Mamoru ^b   Nitta, Hiroshi ^b   Hirao, Takashi ^b  

^a NHK SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Organic photoconductive film; Stacked image sensor; Thin film transistor (TFT); Wavelength selectivity; Zinc oxide (ZnO)

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGES; COLOR SEPARATION; ON/OFF RATIO; ORGANIC FILMS; ORGANIC PHOTOCONDUCTIVE FILM; ORGANIC PHOTOCONDUCTIVE FILMS; PEAK WAVELENGTH; READ-OUT CIRCUIT; SENSITIVE FILMS; SIGNAL READOUTS; STACKED IMAGE SENSOR; STACKED STRUCTURE; TFT CIRCUITS; THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFT); TURN ON VOLTAGE; WAVELENGTH SELECTIVITY; ZNO;

COLOR FILMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SENSORS; OXIDE FILMS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; TRANSISTORS; ZINC;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 70350719423     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2030607     Document Type: Article

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