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Yang, Hankai (author)Time-of-Flight (ToF) is an optical range detection technique that derives range from the round-trip time of light pulse between the imager and the target. Due to the simple hardware and distance extraction algorithm, ToF imagers are widely adopted in existing (automotive, consumer electronics, etc.) and emerging (AR/VR, etc.) applications...master thesis 2022
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Tai, Yu-Chieh (author)This thesis presents a temperature-dependent reference control method to compensate for the temperature effect on CMOS image sensors from -40◦C to 125◦C. Recently, machine vision has been one of the most important applications for CMOS image sensors. However, the working environment and operation might generate large temperature variations and...master thesis 2022
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Tanner, Florian (author), Tonn, Sebastian (author), de Wit, J. (author), Van den Ackerveken, Guido (author), Berger, Bettina (author), Plett, Darren (author)Plant pathogens cause yield losses in crops worldwide. Breeding for improved disease resistance and management by precision agriculture are two approaches to limit such yield losses. Both rely on detecting and quantifying signs and symptoms of plant disease. To achieve this, the field of plant phenotyping makes use of non-invasive sensor...review 2022
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Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This article focuses on the angular dependency of the light sensitivity of a commercially available CMOS camera with a global shutter (storage node (SG) in the charge domain) and shared pixel architecture. The angular dependency is characterized as a function of both the wavelength and the angle of incidence of the incoming light. The...journal article 2022
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Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This article focuses on the parasitic light sensitivity (PLS) of a commercially available CMOS camera with a global shutter (with a storage node in the charge domain) and shared pixel architecture. The PLS is characterized as a function of both the wavelength and the incident angle of the incoming light. The measurement results are linked to...journal article 2022
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Abarca Prouza, A.N. (author)This thesis describes the integration of temperature sensors into a CMOS image sensor (CIS). The temperature sensors provide the in-situ temperature of the pixels as well as the thermal distribution of the pixel array. The temperature and the thermal distribution are intended to be used to compensate for dark current affecting the CIS. Two...doctoral thesis 2021
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Han, L. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This letter introduces a Gm-cell-based CMOS image sensor (CIS) achieving deep subelectron noise performance. The CIS presents a new compensation block and low-noise current source to improve the performance of the Gm pixel. Furthermore, an optional first-order IIR filter is implemented to improve the output swing. The conversion gain, full...journal article 2021
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Romijn, J. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), van Zeijl, H.W. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Leijtens, Johan (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author)In this paper we present a sun position sensor platform with a scalable approach for the 3D integration of the sensor optics. This would facilitate the sun position sensor miniaturization, reduces fabrication cost and mitigates the need for sensor calibration. The sun position sensor platform is implemented in a seven mask BICMOS technology with...conference paper 2021
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Abarca Prouza, A.N. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This article presents in-pixel (of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) temperature sensors with improved accuracy in the spatial and the temporal domain. The goal of the temperature sensors is to be used to compensate for dark (current) fixed pattern noise (FPN) during the exposure of the CIS. The temperature sensors are based on substrate parasitic...journal article 2020
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Kan, Chi Wai (author)As technology is advancing, the need for precision stages is increasing. These stages are being used with (electron) microscopes for scientific research and industrial applications. They can be operated manually or by actuators, where the motorized stages are quite expensive in general and the cost increase significantly if better performance is...master thesis 2020
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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This paper presents a CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a zoom ADC, to quantize in-pixel temperature sensors, as well as for faster readout speed of the image pixels while maintaining low quantization noise. The proposed 15 bit zoom ADC has a 4 bit Unit Capacitor Array (UCA) SAR and a 13 bit incremental 2<sup>nd</sup>-order delta-sigma ADC (DSADC)...journal article 2020
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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This brief proposes a successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) whose readout speed is improved by 33%, through applying a digital error correction (DEC) method, compared to an alternative without using the DEC technique. The proposed addition-only DEC alleviates the ADC's incomplete settling errors, hence...journal article 2020
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Xie, S. (author), Abarca Prouza, A.N. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This brief proposes employing each of the classical 4 transistor (4T) pinned photodiode (PPD) CMOS image sensor (CIS) pixels, for both imaging and temperature measurement, intended for compensating the CISs' dark current, and dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU). The proposed temperature sensors rely on the thermal behavior of MOSFETs working in...journal article 2020
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Zhang, C. (author)In conventional applications, such as bio-imaging and microscopy, SPAD is typically used as a single-photon counter. However, this advantage has been challenged by other photon-counting technologies, especially from CMOS-based QIS. Comparatively, apart from single-photon counting capability, QIS is superior to SPAD in terms of intrinsic multi...doctoral thesis 2019
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Stampoglis, Periklis (author)High speed imagers find applications in many fields such as scientific and medical imaging, automotive applications, machine vision and much more. In this thesis, the design of a high speed, high dynamic range (HDR) CMOS sensor with electronic global shutter (GS) and flexible exposure control is presented. The sensor is designed in the 0.11μm...master thesis 2019
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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This paper presents methodologies for suppressing the spatial and the temporal noise in a CMOS image sensor (CIS). First of all, it demonstrates by using a longer-length column bias transistor, both the fixed pattern noise (FPN) and temporal noise can be suppressed. Meantime, it employs column-level oversampling delta-sigma ADCs to suppress...journal article 2019
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Goji Etoh, Takeharu (author), Okinaka, Tomo (author), Takano, Yasuhide (author), Takehara, Kohsei (author), Nakano, Hitoshi (author), Shimonomura, Kazuhiro (author), Ando, Taeko (author), Ngo, Nguyen (author), Zhang, C. (author)Light in flight was captured by a single shot of a newly developed backside-illuminated multi-collection-gate image sensor at a frame interval of 10 ns without high-speed gating devices such as a streak camera or post data processes. This paper reports the achievement and further evolution of the image sensor toward the theoretical temporal...journal article 2019
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Xie, S. (author), Theuwissen, A.J.P.A.M. (author)This paper analyzes and compensates for process and temperature dependency among a (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) CMOS image sensor (CIS) array. Both the analysis and compensation are supported with experimental results on the CIS’s dark current, dark signal non-uniformity (DSNU), and conversion gain (CG). To model and to...journal article 2019
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Zhang, C. (author), Lindner, S.A. (author), Antolović, I.M. (author), Wolf, Martin (author), Charbon-Iwasaki-Charbon, E. (author)Per-pixel time-to-digital converter (TDC) architectures have been exploited by single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors to achieve high photon throughput, but at the expense of fill factor, pixel pitch and readout efficiency. In contrast, TDC sharing architecture usually features high fill factor at small pixel pitch and energy efficient...journal article 2018
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Snaevarsdottir, Fjola (author)Imaging sensors are remarkable devices which are able to capture moments and present them in a form available to us for years to come. With the use of material properties and photon particles, charges can be produced which, in combination with electric circuitry, transform into information understandable to the human eye and eventually the brain...master thesis 2018