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A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

This letter introduces a 5-transistors (5T) implementation of CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) pixels enabling the combination of deep sub-electronnoise performance with wide dynamic range (DR). The 5T pixel presents a new technique to reduce the sense node capaci ...

2020

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Raffaele Capoccia

The current trend towards embedding more and more light sensors in portable and wearable devices is calling for higher integration and reuse of the sensor interface electronics. In many applications, the light needs to be generated locally, which becomes t ...

IEEE2020

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a pixel sensor cell (1) for a CMOS sensor device comprising: - a photodiode (11) for generating photoelectrons; - a first transfer transistor (12) coupling the photodiode (11) with an intermediate node (IN) and configured t ...

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Full SPICE Simulation of a CMOS Active Pixel Sensor with Generalized Devices

Jean-Michel Sallese, Chiara Rossi

We present SPICE simulations of a CMOS APS pixel element consisting of the optical sensor and the circuit. The photodiode is simulated at the physics level by means of the so-called generalized devices, without any predefined compact model. Conversely, reg ...

IEEE2019

Compact Modeling of Charge Transfer in Pinned Photodiodes for CMOS Image Sensors

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Assim Boukhayma, Raffaele Capoccia

In this paper, we propose a physics-based compact model of the pinned photodiode (PPD) combined with the transfer gate. A set of analytical expressions is derived for the 2-D electrostatic profile, the PPD capacitance, and the charge transfer current. The ...

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A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Myung Jae Lee, Preethi Padmanabhan, Augusto Ronchini Ximenes

This article introduces a modular, direct time-of-flight (TOF) depth sensor. Each module is digitally synthesized and features a 2

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Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

The invention relates to a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensing device comprising - a pulsed light source, - at least one pixel to create photo-generated electrons, synchronized with said pulsed light source. It is mainly characterized in that each pixel com ...

2019

Direct unwrapped phase estimation in phase shifting interferometry using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm

Pramod Rastogi, Rishikesh Dilip Kulkarni

An algorithm for the direct unwrapped phase estimation from the linearly phase shifted interferograms is presented. The temporal fringe intensity along each pixel is represented as a function of fringe amplitude, phase step and the searched phase. These pa ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Fluorescence lifetime imaging using a single photon avalanche diode array sensor

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Single photon detectors allows us work with the weakest fluorescence signals. Single photon arrays, combined with ps-controlled gating allow us to create image maps of fluorescence lifetimes, which can be used for in-vivo discrimination of tissue activity. ...

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Blind calibration of sensors of sensor arrays

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Giovanni Cherubini, Sanaz Kazemi

Embodiments include methods for calibrating sensors of one or more sensor arrays. Aspects include accessing one or more beamforming matrices respectively associated to the one or more sensor arrays. Source intensity estimates are obtained for a set of poin ...

2017

A 0.4 e-rms Temporal Readout Noise 7.5 µm Pitch and a 66% Fill Factor Pixel for Low Light CMOS Image Sensors

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A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Full SPICE Simulation of a CMOS Active Pixel Sensor with Generalized Devices

Compact Modeling of Charge Transfer in Pinned Photodiodes for CMOS Image Sensors

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Health monitoring device

Direct unwrapped phase estimation in phase shifting interferometry using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm

Fluorescence lifetime imaging using a single photon avalanche diode array sensor

Blind calibration of sensors of sensor arrays

A CMOS Image Sensor Pixel Combining Deep Sub-Electron Noise With Wide Dynamic Range

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

Health monitoring device

Direct unwrapped phase estimation in phase shifting interferometry using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm

Fluorescence lifetime imaging using a single photon avalanche diode array sensor

Full SPICE Simulation of a CMOS Active Pixel Sensor with Generalized Devices

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Compact Modeling of Charge Transfer in Pinned Photodiodes for CMOS Image Sensors

Blind calibration of sensors of sensor arrays