High Performance Silicon Imaging

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Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials

Part I: Fundamentals

1. Fundamental principles of photosensing

Abstract:

1.1 Introduction

1.2 The human vision system

1.3 Photometry and radiometry

1.4 History of photosensing

1.5 Early developments in photodetector technology

1.6 References

2. Operational principles of silicon image sensors

Abstract:

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Silicon phototransduction

2.3 Principles of charged coupled device (CCD) and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) photosensing technologies

2.4 Metal-oxide-semiconductor-capacitor (MOS-C) structure-based photodetectors

2.5 p-n junction-based photodetectors

2.6 Noise considerations ...