Current mode image sensor with two transistors per pixel

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1154-1165

  Gruev, Viktor ^a   Yang, Zheng ^b   Van Der Spiegel, Jan ^b   Etienne Cummings, Ralph ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Focal plane image sensors; Image sensors; Linear response; Low power sensors

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSISTORS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; FIXED PATTERN NOISE; FOCAL PLANE IMAGE; LINEAR RESPONSE; LOW POWER SENSOR; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SWITCH TRANSISTORS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER;

PIXELS;

EID: 77953480042     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2030093     Document Type: Article

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