A two-stage charge transfer active pixel CMOS image sensor with low-noise global shuttering and a dual-shuttering mode

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 740-747

  Yasutomi, Keita ^a   Itoh, Shinya ^a   Kawahito, Shoji ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor; dual shutter; global shutter; low noise; motion detection; two stage charge transfer; wide dynamic range

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR (CMOS) IMAGE SENSOR; DUAL SHUTTER; GLOBAL SHUTTER; LOW NOISE; MOTION DETECTION; TWO STAGE; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

CHARGE TRANSFER; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIGITAL CAMERAS; IMAGE SENSORS; ION EXCHANGE; MASS TRANSFER; SIGNAL DETECTION;

PIXELS;

EID: 79952040110     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2095856     Document Type: Article

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