TOF range finding sensor in 90nm CMOS capable of suppressing 180 klx ambient light

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2413-2416

  Davidovic, Milos ^a   Zach, Gerald ^a,b   Schneider Hornstein, Kerstin ^a   Zimmermann, Horst ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b RIEGL LASER MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

90NM CMOS; AMBIENT LIGHT; FILL FACTOR; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; MODULATED SIGNAL; MULTI-PIXEL; PHOTODIODE CAPACITANCE; PIXEL SIZE; SINGLE PIXEL; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUCTURE SIZES; TIME OF FLIGHT;

PHOTODIODES; PIXELS; RANGE FINDERS; RANGE FINDING;

SENSORS;

EID: 79951938031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5690996     Document Type: Conference Paper

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