Color imaging via nearest neighbor hole coupling in plasmonic color filters integrated onto a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor image sensor

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 10038-10047

  Burgos, Stanley P ^a   Yokogawa, Sozo ^a,b   Atwater, Harry A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMOS image sensor; hole array color filter

Indexed keywords

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; COLOR DIFFERENCE METRIC; COLOR FILTERS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY; TRANSMISSION PROPERTY; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DIGITAL CAMERAS; PIXELS; PLASMONS;

COLOR;

EID: 84888875814     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn403991d     Document Type: Article

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