CMOS Neuromorphic Optical Sensor Chip With Color Change-Intensity Change Disambiguation (CCICD)

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 689-696

  Fu, ZhenHong ^a   Titus, Albert H ^a  

^a State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried double junction photodiodes; CMOS color detection; CMOS photodetectors; parallel vision pathways

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008019130     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: 15581748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2020676     Document Type: Article

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