Publications related to Simulation of CMOS APS Operation and Crosstalk in SPICE With Generalized Devices

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

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 ...

2019

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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8) single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel array, an edge-sensitive decision tree, a shared time-to ...

2019

A 30-frames/s, 252 x 144 SPAD Flash LiDAR With 1728 Dual-Clock 48.8-ps TDCs, and Pixel-Wise Integrated Histogramming

Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Chunmin Zhang, Scott Anthony Lindner, Juan Mata Pavia, Martin Wolf

A 252 x 144 single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel sensor, called Ocelot, is reported for light detection and ranging (LiDAR). The sensor, fabricated in the 180-nm CMOS technology, features 1728 12-bit time-to-digital converters (TDCs) with 48.8-ps res ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers

Marco Mattavelli, Jean-Michel Sallese, Catherine Dehollain, Diego Ruben Barrettino

This paper presents a high precision capacitive moisture sensor for polymers that is part of a compact, fast, and economic moisture analyzer capable of reaching similar precision than commercial moisture analyzers based on the Karl Fischer method. The desi ...

IEEE2018

An Any-Resolution Distributed Pressure Localization Scheme Using a Capacitive Soft Sensor Skin

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar, Michelle Ching-Sum Yuen

We present a method to determine the location of an applied pressure on a large area, monolithic silicone based capacitive sensor. In contrast to pressure sensor arrays composed of n x n discrete sensors, we utilize a single sensor body with a single instr ...

2018

Noise Reduction Techniques and Scaling Effects towards Photon Counting CMOS Image Sensors

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma

This paper presents an overview of the read noise in CMOS image sensors (CISs) based on four-transistors (4T) pixels, column-level amplification and correlated multiple sampling. Starting from the input-referred noise analytical formula, process level opti ...

Mdpi Ag2016

Temporal Readout Noise Analysis and Reduction Techniques for Low-Light CMOS Image Sensors

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Arnaud Peizerat

In this paper, an analytical noise calculation is presented to derive the impact of process and design parameters on 1/f and thermal noise for a low-noise CMOS image sensor (CIS) readout chain. It is shown that dramatic noise reduction is obtained by using ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Cmos image sensor

Assim Boukhayma, Arnaud Peizerat

A CMOS image sensor including a pixel including: a photodiode in series with a MOS transistor between a first reference potential and a sense node; a MOS transistor connecting the sense node to a second reference potential; and a third MOS transistor assem ...

2016

Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Assim Boukhayma

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) overtook the charge coupled devices (CCDs) in low noise performance. Photoelectron counting capability is the next step for CIS for ultimate low light performance and new imaging paradigms. This work presents a review of CMOS image ...

EPFL2016

Exploring information retrieval using image sparse representations

William Guicquéro

New advances in the field of image sensors (especially in CMOS technology) tend to question the conventional methods used to acquire the image. Compressive Sensing (CS) plays a major role in this, especially to unclog the Analog to Digital Converters which ...

EPFL2015

Simulation of CMOS APS Operation and Crosstalk in SPICE With Generalized Devices

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

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

A 30-frames/s, 252 x 144 SPAD Flash LiDAR With 1728 Dual-Clock 48.8-ps TDCs, and Pixel-Wise Integrated Histogramming

High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers

An Any-Resolution Distributed Pressure Localization Scheme Using a Capacitive Soft Sensor Skin

Noise Reduction Techniques and Scaling Effects towards Photon Counting CMOS Image Sensors

Temporal Readout Noise Analysis and Reduction Techniques for Low-Light CMOS Image Sensors

Cmos image sensor

Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Exploring information retrieval using image sparse representations

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

An Any-Resolution Distributed Pressure Localization Scheme Using a Capacitive Soft Sensor Skin

High Precision Capacitive Moisture Sensor for Polymers

A 30-frames/s, 252 x 144 SPAD Flash LiDAR With 1728 Dual-Clock 48.8-ps TDCs, and Pixel-Wise Integrated Histogramming

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

Temporal Readout Noise Analysis and Reduction Techniques for Low-Light CMOS Image Sensors

Cmos image sensor

Exploring information retrieval using image sparse representations

Noise Reduction Techniques and Scaling Effects towards Photon Counting CMOS Image Sensors

Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors