Essential Principles of Image Sensors

Index

A

1. Active pixel sensors (APS), 84

2. Amplifying noise canceller, 95–96

3. Analog-to-digital converter (ADC); see also Digital output sensors

   1. column-parallel ADC-type sensor, 151

   2. signal digitization stages, 98–99

4. APS, see Active pixel sensors (APS)

B

1. Backside illuminated sensors (BSIs)

   1. advantages and disadvantages, 114

   2. cross talk, 113

   3. fabrication process, 111–112

2. Band theory of solids, 11–12

3. Bayer color filter

   1. array arrangement, 6

   2. spectral response, 139–140

4. BBD, see Bucket-brigade device (BBD)

5. Blooming phenomenon;, 63–64

6. Boron-doped silicon crystal, 13–14

7. BSIs, see Backside illuminated sensors (BSIs)

8. Bucket-brigade device (BBD), 55–57

9. Buried-channel CCD (BCCD), 55–56

10. Buried MOS structure

    1. charge and potential distribution, 22

    2. n-type layer formation, ...