Statistical Noise Analysis of CMOS Image Sensors in Dark Condition

Woo, J. C.; Park, Hong-Hyun; Hong, Sungmin; Chung, In‐Young; Min, Hyun Jin; Park, Young June

doi:10.1109/ted.2009.2030981

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“…The RTS column number decreases with the increase of gate length, indicating that by increasing the transistor gate length the column RTS noise can be effectively restrained. This result is in agreement with the measurement reported in [1,13]. The reason that large gate length could decrease column RTS is illustrated in the following content.…”

Section: Gate Channel Size Influencesupporting

confidence: 92%

“…So the change of column RTS level has no specific direction with the negative influence of the temporal distribution of electron controlled by defects and positive influence of increased total numbers of defects existing in the Si/ SiO2 interface. This reason tallies with the content in [13].…”

Section: Reason For Gate Channel Size Influencementioning

confidence: 56%

“…The basic electron trapped and detrapped process is illustrated [3,4,5], and new source and location of RTS noise are presented [6,7,8,9,10,11,12]. The new analysis methods of RTS [13,14,15,16,17], and improvement methods of RTS [18,19,20,21,22], are also introduced. Moreover, not only the impact on CIS [23,24,25,26], the effect of RTS existed in flash memories [27,28] and resistive switching memories [29,30] are also under research.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Novel method to optimize the column random telegraph signal performance in CMOS image sensor

Liu

et al. 2019

IEICE Electron. Express

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We present a methodology to define and distinguish the column random telegraph noise (RTS) derived from column bitline bias and comparator input transistors only based on the digital output data of each pixel. Many test experiments were conducted on the CMOS image sensor (CIS) chips fabricated with Dongbu 0.13 um, 1P5M process technology. According to the experiments, the threshold voltage and the channel length of the transistors have a significant influence on the intensity of the column RTS. Large channel length and proper threshold voltage, 0.15 V to 0.3 V for most cases, mean a low level of column RTS.

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Section: Gate Channel Size Influencesupporting

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confidence: 56%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Novel method to optimize the column random telegraph signal performance in CMOS image sensor

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IEICE Electron. Express

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“…6 we can see the maximum noise value will increase with the temperature increases, this result is consistent with what we have expected. Generally, the power spectral density (PSD) of the thermal noise is proportional to the temperature [6], which means the thermal noise will increase with the temperature rise. Therefore, the temperature is indeed an important factor which has an impact on the CIS noise.…”

Section: Temperature Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on dark noise features of CMOS image sensor

Lingxiao¹,

Kim²,

Cui³

et al. 2015

Advances in Intelligent Systems Research

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Abstract. In this paper, the noises of images taken by Cannon40D and CMOS industrial camera are analyzed both in time and space domain without outside illumination. The dark random noise associated with time is very low, which means the system noise is almost uncorrelated with time. However, system noise in the center of the CMOS image sensor is lower than those in the marginal area, which suggests the noise presents a certain spatial distribution. Finally, taking the temperature effect into consideration, we find the relationship between the maximum noise and temperature.

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“…In order to reap the full advantages of BSI structures, it is very crucial to well control BSI process (color-filter to silicon photodiode alignment, wafer thickness variation, backside dielectric film structure and so on), particularly for small pixel size (<0.9um). In addition, as pixel transistors shrink with pixel scaling, an undesirable Random Telegraph Signal (RTS) could dominate noise and degrade CMOS sensor quality (4,5), which can be improved by BSI process. In this paper, we exhibit the progress of 300mm BSI process and a methodology to reduce RTS noise.…”

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High performance 300mm backside illumination technology for continuous pixel shrinkage

Yaung

Hsieh

Wang

et al. 2011

2011 International Electron Devices Meeting

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Backside Illumination (BSI) sensor with excellent optical performance has become the main-stream CMOS image sensor process. This work addressed the key factors and issues for 300mm BSI technology, including wafer distortion, silicon thickness variation, backside junction formation and dielectric film structure, thermal annealing and so on. It is demonstrated that with the optimized key process, a high performance 0.9um BSI pixel with low noise can be fabricated.

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Statistical Noise Analysis of CMOS Image Sensors in Dark Condition

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

Novel method to optimize the column random telegraph signal performance in CMOS image sensor

Novel method to optimize the column random telegraph signal performance in CMOS image sensor

Research on dark noise features of CMOS image sensor

High performance 300mm backside illumination technology for continuous pixel shrinkage

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