Novel integrated CMOS sensor circuits

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2328-2336

  Kleinfelder, Stuart ^a   Bieser, Fred ^b   Chen, Yandong ^a   Gareus, Robin ^b   Malis, Howard S ^b   Oldenburg, Markus ^b   Retiere, Fabrice ^b   Ritter, Hans Georg ^b   Wieman, Howard H ^b   Yamamoto, Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor; Active rest; Correlated double sampling; KT C noise; Photogate; Vertex detector

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTODIODES; READOUT SYSTEMS; SAMPLING; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SILICON;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS (APS); ACTIVE REST; CORRELATED DOUBLE SAMPLING (CDS); KT/C NOISE; PHOTOGATE; VERTEX DETECTORS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 8344269520     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.836150     Document Type: Article

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