A Review of the Pinned Photodiode for CCD and CMOS Image Sensors (original) (raw)

ADS

• Fossum, Eric R. ;
• Hondongwa, Donald B.

Abstract

The pinned photodiode is the primary photodetector structure used in most CCD and CMOS image sensors. This paper reviews the development, physics, and technology of the pinned photodiode.

Publication:

IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society

Pub Date:

2014

DOI:

10.1109/JEDS.2014.2306412

Bibcode:

2014IJEDS...2...33F

Keywords:

• Charge-coupled device (CCD);
• CMOS active pixel image sensor (CIS);
• photodetector;
• pinned photodiode (PPD);
• pixel