May 2014
Intermediate to advanced
476 pages
14h 38m
English
D. Durini, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany and formerly Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Germany
D. Arutinov, Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems, Germany
This chapter discusses the fundamental theory behind photosensing and imaging. It starts with a brief overview of the human vision system, and continues with the basic ideas behind photometry and radiometry used as radiation measuring systems. Next, it presents a brief history of phototransduction explaining the origins of solid-state photosensing through the development of quantum mechanics and the different applications of the photoelectric effect, and mentions some important ...
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