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

Boukhayma, Assim  
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Caizzone, Antonino  
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Enz, Christian  
June 1, 2020
Ieee Electron Device Letters

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 capacitance without any process refinements or voltage level increase and features adjustable conversion gain (CG) to enable-wide dynamic imaging. The implementation of the proposed 5T pixel in a standard 180nm CIS process demonstrates the combination of a measured high CG of 250 mu V/e(-) and low CG of 115 mu V/e(-) with a saturation level of about 6500 e(-) offering photo-electron counting capability without compromising the DR and readout speed.

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DOI
10.1109/LED.2020.2988378
Web of Science ID

WOS:000541155300022

Author(s)
Boukhayma, Assim  
Caizzone, Antonino  
Enz, Christian  
Date Issued

2020-06-01

Published in
Ieee Electron Device Letters
Volume

41

Issue

6

Start page

880

End page

883

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Engineering

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cmos

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4t

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5t

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cis

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conversion gain

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sub-electron noise

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wide dynamic

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