Design of a radiation tolerant CMOS image sensor

2011 International Symposium on Integrated Circuits, ISIC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 412-415

  Qian, Xinyuan ^a   Yu, Hang ^a   Zhao, Bo ^a   Chen, Shoushun ^a   Low, Kay Soon ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIASING CURRENT; CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; PHYSICAL LAYOUT; PIXEL ARRAYS; PROTOTYPE CHIP; RADIATION TOLERANT; TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATION;

DIGITAL CAMERAS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

PIXELS;

EID: 84863031216     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISICir.2011.6131984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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