A Review of the Pinned Photodiode for CCD and CMOS Image Sensors
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:
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IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society
- Pub Date:
- 2014
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2014IJEDS...2...33F
- Keywords:
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- Charge-coupled device (CCD);
- CMOS active pixel image sensor (CIS);
- photodetector;
- pinned photodiode (PPD);
- pixel