Toward 100 Mega-frames per second: Design of an ultimate ultra-high-speed image sensor

Sensors

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-35

  Son, Dao Vu Truong ^a   Etoh, Takeharu Goji ^a   Tanaka, Masatoshi ^a   Dung, Nguyen Hoang ^a   Cuong, Vo L ^a   Takehara, Kohsei ^a   Akino, Toshiro ^a   Nishi, Kenji ^a   Aoki, Hitoshi ^b   Nakai, Junichi ^b  

^a KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Backside illumination; CCD; High sensitivity; High speed; Image sensor; ISIS

Indexed keywords

BACKSIDE ILLUMINATION; BACKSIDE-ILLUMINATED; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH SPEED; IN-SITU STORAGE IMAGE SENSOR; ISIS; MINIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; TRANSIENT SIMULATION;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DESIGN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IMAGE SENSORS;

PIXELS;

EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77951717836     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s100100016     Document Type: Review

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