CMOS Imagers

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Fundamentals of Silicon-Based Phototransduction

   • Honghao Ji, Pamela A. Abshire

   Pages 1-51

3. CMOS APS MTF Modeling

   • Igor Shcherback, Orly Yadid-Pecht

   Pages 53-74

4. Photoresponse Analysis and Pixel Shape Optimization for CMOS APS

   • Igor Shcherback, Orly Yadid-Pecht

   Pages 75-98

5. Active Pixel Sensor Design: From Pixels to Systems

   • Alexander Fish, Orly Yadid-Pecht

   Pages 99-139

6. Focal-Plane Analog Image Processing

   • Matthew A. Clapp, Viktor Gruev, Ralph Etienne-Cummings

   Pages 141-202

7. CMOS Imager Non-Uniformity Correction Using Floating-Gate Adaptation

   • Marc Cohen, Gert Cauwenberghs

   Pages 203-221

8. Back Matter

   Pages 223-241

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The idea of writing a book on CMOS imaging has been brewing for several years. It was placed on a fast track after we agreed to organize a tutorial on CMOS sensors for the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004). This tutorial defined the structure of the book, but as first time authors/editors, we had a lot to learn about the logistics of putting together information from multiple sources. Needless to say, it was a long road between the tutorial and the book, and it took more than a few months to complete. We hope that you will find our journey worthwhile and the collated information useful. The laboratories of the authors are located at many universities distributed around the world. Their unifying theme, however, is the advancement of knowledge for the development of systems for CMOS imaging and image processing. We hope that this book will highlight the ideas that have been pioneered by the authors, while providing a roadmap for new practitioners in this field to exploit exciting opportunities to integrate imaging and “smartness” on a single VLSI chip. The potential of these smart imaging systems is still unfulfilled. Hence, there is still plenty of research and development to be done.

• CMOS
• Processing
• Scala
• Sensor
• Tracking
• VLSI
• image processing
• integrated circuit
• micro-alloy transistor, MAT
• modeling
• static-induction transistor
• system on chip (SoC)

• Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  Orly Yadid-Pecht

• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

  Ralph Etienne-Cummings

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