CMOS Circuits for Sensing and Imaging
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2021) | Viewed by 7356
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infrared imagers; CMOS imagers; readout integrated circuits; VLSI analog and mixed-signal circuits; data conversion circuits; CMOS technology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
High-performance sensing and imaging requires dense integration of the sensor in the circuit environment. CMOS technology is today the most established platform that provides such circuits due to its availability, high density, and low cost. In many cases, the CMOS technology provides the embedded sensing property in the CMOS device itself, while in others, the CMOS circuit provides the sensing front-end and is tightly integrated with the sensing element. Moreover, CMOS integrated circuits provide other functions such as mixed-signal processing, analog to digital conversion, digital processing, and fast signal interfacing.
Image sensors are an outstanding example of circuit and sensor integration. A single CMOS die integrates the full image system from the sensor to the video output. In CMOS imagers, the photons are directly converted into an electrical signal exploiting the light sensitivity of CMOS devices. At other wavelengths, such as in infrared imagers, the light signal may be sensed by a focal plane array that is hybridized to a CMOS readout integrated circuit. Other imagers may be based on the integration of circuits with micro or nanomachined sensors. In addition to imaging, many sensing applications require the integration of a CMOS circuit and sensor. Last but not least, the sensed signal is noisy, and thus, the CMOS circuits are required to provide low noise solutions, particularly at the sensor front-end.
This Special Issue welcomes original papers on the advances of CMOS circuits for sensing or imaging, and from the front-end to the digital output. The CMOS circuit should include characteristics related to the sensing or the imaging process. Some examples are low-noise or micro-power front-end readouts, pixel circuits, parallel image data conversion, and sensor mixed-signal processing.
Dr. Claudio Jakobson
Dr. Roni El-Bahar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CMOS sensor circuits
- CMOS image sensors
- CMOS readout integrated circuits
- CMOS pixel circuits
- parallel image data conversion
- low noise sensing
- mixed signal sensor circuits
