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A 0.66 e rms− Temporal-Readout-Noise 3-D-Stacked CMOS Image Sensor With Conditional Correlated Multiple Sampling Technique

Yeh et al., 2017

Document ID
3911381594582739182
Author
Yeh S
Chou K
Tu H
Chao C
Hsueh F
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

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This paper presents a sub-electron temporal readout noise, 8.3 Mpixel and 1.1-μ pixel pitch 3-D-stacked CMOS image sensor (CIS). A conditional correlated multiple sampling (CMS) technique is introduced to selectively reduce the dark pixel noise by using a full-range ramp …
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