Papers Published

1. Joo, Youngjoong and Park, Jinsung and Thomas, Mikkel and Chung, Kee Shik and Brooke, Martin A. and Jokerst, Nan Marie and Wills, D. Scott, Smart CMOS focal plane arrays: A Si CMOS detector array and sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter imaging system, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 5 no. 2 (1999), pp. 296 - 305 [2944.778309] .
   (last updated on 2007/04/16)

   Abstract:
   This paper evaluates the potential for the real-time utilization of high frame rate image sequences using a fully parallel readout system. Multiple readout architectures for high frame rate imaging are compared. The application domain for a fully parallel readout system is identified, and the design for a fully parallel, monolithically integrated smart CMOS focal plane array is presented. This focal plane image processing chip, with an 8×8 array of Si CMOS detectors each of which have a dedicated on-chip current input first-order sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter front end, has been fabricated, and test results for uniformity and linearity are presented.

   Keywords:
   Photodetectors;CMOS integrated circuits;Integrated optoelectronics;Analog to digital conversion;