• DocumentCode
    2391033
  • Title

    Random Telegraph Signal in CMOS Image Sensor Pixels

  • Author

    Wang, Xinyang ; Rao, Padmakumar R. ; Mierop, Adri ; Theuwissen, Albert J P

  • Author_Institution
    Delft Univ. of Technol.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    11-13 Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this work, the 1/f noise of the source follower (SF) in pinned-photodiode CMOS pixels is characterized. It is found that the 1/f noise in these pixels is actually due to a very limited number of traps and results in a random telegraph signal (RTS). It is pointed out how the correlated-double sampling (CDS) reacts on this RTS. The temperature dependency of the imager read noise revealed two mechanisms of RTS during CDS
  • Keywords
    1/f noise; CMOS image sensors; photodiodes; 1/f noise; CMOS image sensor pixels; correlated-double sampling; imager read noise; random telegraph signal; CMOS image sensors; Circuit noise; Computational Intelligence Society; Histograms; Image sampling; Noise cancellation; Noise figure; Noise level; Pixel; Telegraphy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices Meeting, 2006. IEDM '06. International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0438-X
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0439-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEDM.2006.346973
  • Filename
    4154408