Evolution of optical structure in image sensors

Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Teranishi, Nobukazu ^a   Watanabe, Hisashi ^a   Ueda, Takehiko ^a   Sengoku, Naohisa ^a  

^a PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR FILTERING; FUTURE TRENDS; IMAGE SENSOR PIXELS; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL STRUCTURES;

ELECTRON DEVICES; LIGHT; PIXELS;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 84876101776     PISSN: 01631918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2012.6479092     Document Type: Conference Paper

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