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A low noise wide dynamic range CMOS image sensor with low-noise transistors and 17b column-parallel ADCs

Seo et al., 2013

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11429795502171745594
Author
Seo M
Sawamoto T
Akahori T
Iida T
Takasawa T
Yasutomi K
Kawahito S
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IEEE Sensors Journal

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An extremely low temporal noise and wide dynamic range CMOS image sensor is developed using low-noise transistors and high gray-scale resolution (17b) folding- integration/cyclic analog-to-digital converter (ADC). Two types of pixel are designed. One is …
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