2009 INTERNATIONAL IMAGE SENSOR WORKSHOP

June 26-28, 2009 Bergen, Norway

Papers should be cited as:
Author(s), Title, in Proc. of 2009 International Image Sensor Workshop,
Bergen, NORWAY, June 22-28, 2009.


Friday, June 26th 2009

08:00-08:30 Registration
08:30-08:32 Welcome Eric R Fossum – Welcome by Image Sensors Inc.
08:32-08:50 Opening Albert Theuwissen – General Chair’s opening remarks Johannes Solhusvik – Technical Program Chair’s opening remarks
   
Session 01 Invited presentation and BSI Session chair: Boyd Fowler, Fairchild Imaging, USA
08:50-09:30 Invited Presentation – I Sense and SensitivityMats Wernersson, Henrik Eliasson, Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB, Lund, Sweden
09:30-09:50 Improved color separation for a backside illuminated image sensor
with 1.4 μm pixel pitch
Jens Prima1, Francois Roy1, Hugues
Leininger1, Christophe Cowache1, Jerome
Vaillant1, Luc Pinzelli1, Daniel
Benoit1, Norbert Moussy2, Benoit Giffard2
1FTM Imaging, STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France.
2CEA Léti-MINATEC, 17 rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble
Cedex 9, France
09:50-10:10 A Manufacturable Back-Side Illumination Technology using Bulk-Si
Substrate for Advanced CMOS Image Sensors
S.G. Wuu1, C.C. Wang, D.N. Yaung1, Y.L.
Tu1, J.C. Liu1, T.H. Hsu1, F.J.
Shiu1, C.Y. Yu1, G.Y. Shiau1, R.J.
Lin, C.S.Tsai1, L. Tran1, SSChen1,
CCWang1, SYHuang1, H. Rhodes2, D.
Tai2, Y. Qian2, D. Mao2, S.
Manabe2, A. Shah2, R. Yang2, J.C.
Hsieh3, Calvin Chang3, C.W. Lu3,
Shawn Tseng3. 1Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, R.O.C.
2OmniVision Technologies, Inc., 4275 Burton Drive, Santa
Clara, CA 95054 3VisEra Technologies Company, Hsin-Chu,
Taiwan, R.O.C.
10:10-10:30 The Mass Production of BSI CMOS Image Sensors
H. Rhodes, D. Tai, Y. Qian, D. Mao, V. Venezia, Wei Zheng, Z.
Xiong, C.Y. Liu, K.C. Ku, S. Manabe, A. Shah, S. Sasidhar, P.
Cizdziel, Z. Lin, A. Ercan, M. Bikumandla, R. Yang, P. Matagne, C.
Yang, H. Yang, T.J. Dai, J. Li, S.G. Wuu1,D.N.
Yaung1, C.C. Wang1, J.C. Liu1, C.S.
Tsai1, Y.L.Tu1, T.H. Hsu1.
Omnivision Technologies, Inc. USA;1Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company, Taiwan, R.O.C.
10:30-10:45 Break
   
Session 02 BSI and small pixel sensors Session chair: Alex Krymski, Alexima, USA
10:45-11:00 A 1.4 μm Pixel Backside Illuminated CMOS Image Sensor with 300 mm
Wafer Based on 65 nm Logic Technology
Y.Kohyama, H.Yamashita, S.Uya, T.Yoshida, N.Sakurai, I.Inoue,
T.Yamaguchi,K.Nagata, H.Harakawa1,
A.Murakoshi1, T.Harada1,
M.Takahashi1, M.Morita1,K.Tanida1,
M.Dohi1, K.Takahashi1, K.Iwade1,
T.Matsumura1, H.Sugiyama1, H.Goto,K.Tomioka.
Imaging Device Marketing & Engineering Dept., and
1Process & Manufacturing Engineering Center, Toshiba
Corporation Semiconductor Company, Japan
11:00-11:15 Towards a Three-Dimensional Back-Illuminated Miniaturized CMOS
Pixel Technology using 100nm Inter-Layer Contacts
Perceval Coudrain1,2,3, P. Magnan1, P.
Batude3, X. Gagnard2, C. Leyris2,
L. Depoyan2, Y. Cazaux3, M. Vinet3,
B. Giffard3, P. Ancey2. 1Université
de Toulouse,Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace;
2STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France; 3CEA
Leti-MINATEC, France
11:15-11:30 Monolithic and Fully-Hybrid Backside Illuminated CMOS Imagers for
Smart Sensing
Padmakumar R. Rao, Kyriaki Minoglou, Koen De Munck, Deniz
Sabuncuoglu Tezcan, Chris Van Hoof, Piet De Moor. IMEC, Belgium
11:30-11:45 CMOS Synchronous shutter backside illuminated image sensor for
hyperspectralimaging
B. Dierickx1,3, B. Dupont1, Paul
Jerram2, Martin Fryer2, Jérôme
Pratlong2, Andrew Walker2, A.
Defernez1. 1Caeleste CVBA, Belgium;
2e2v Ltd, UK; 3Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB), Belgium
11:45-12:00 1.1μm Backside Imager vs. Frontside Imager: an optics-dedicated
FDTD approach
Flavien Hirigoyen, Jérôme Vaillant, Emilie Huss, Frederic Barbier,
Jens Prima,François Roy, Didier Hérault. STMicroelectronics,
Crolles, France
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:45 IISW09 Group Picture (all workshop attendants)
   
Session 03 Small pixel sensors and WLC Session Chair: Shoji Kawahito, Shizuoka University, Japan
13:45-14:00 New Integration Technology of CIS for High Sensitivity Small
Pixel
Seounghyun Kim, Taegyu Kim, Munhwan Kim, Dongbin Park, Heesung
Shim,Jongtaek Hwang, Sungho Jun, Ohjin Jung, Joonku Yoon, Minhyung
Lee, Chulho Park,Jaewon Han, Joon Hwang, Dongbu HiTek , Chungbuk,
Korea
Presenter: Hoon Jang, Dongbu HiTek , Chungbuk,
Korea
13:45-14:00 CMOS Image Sensor with a Thin Overlaid Panchromatic Organic
Photoconductive Layer as the Best Candidate for Sensors with
Reduced Pixel Size
Mikio
Ihama, Tetsurou Mitsui, Kimiatsu Nomura, Yoshiki Maehara, Hiroshi
Inomata, Takashi Gotou, Yutaka Takeuchi.
FUJIFILM Corporation, Frontier Core-Technology
Laboratories,
Japan
14:00-14:15 A 1.4 μm pixel front-side-illuminated image sensor for mobile
phones
R. Daniel McGrath, John T. Compton, R. Michael Guidash, Edward T.
Nelson, Christopher Parks, Joseph R. Summa. Eastman Kodak Company,
USA
14:15-14:30 CMOS image sensor with high refractive index lightpipe
J. Gambino1, B. Leidy1, A. Watts1,
C. Musante1, K. Ackerson1, S.
Mongeon1, J. Adkisson1, R.J.
Rassel1, K. Ogg1, J.
Ellis-Monaghan1, M. Jaffe1, M.
Laukkanen2, K. Karaste2, W.
McLaughlin2, T. Gädda2, J.
Rantala2. 1IBM Microelectronics,
UK;2Silecs,, Finland
14:30-14:45 Pixel continues to shrink…. Pixel Development for Novel CMOS
Image Sensors
G. Agranov, R. Mauritzson,  J. Ladd, A. Dokoutchaev, X. Fan, X. Li,
Z. Yin, R. Johnson, V. Lenchenkov, S. Nagaraja, W.Gazeley, J. Bai,
H. Lee; A. D’Anna1, G. De-Amicis1; Aptina LLC,
San Jose, USA; 1Micron Technology Inc., Avezzano,
Italy
14:45-15:00 Wafer Level Cameras – Novel Fabrication and Packaging
Technologies
Margarete
Zoberbier1, Sven Hansen1, Marc
Hennemayer1, Dietrich Tönnies1,
Ralph Zoberbier1, Markus Brehm2,
Andreas Kraft2, Martin Eisner3, Reinhard
Völkel3,
 1SUSS MicroTec Lithography,  Germany,  2DELO Industrial Adhesives,  Germany,3SUSS MicroOptics SA, Switzerland
15:00-15:40 Invited Presentation – II A Four-Side Tileable Back Illuminated, Three-Dimensionally
Integrated Megapixel CMOS Image Sensor
Vyshnavi
Suntharalingam1, R. Berger1, S.
Clark2, J. Knecht1, A. Messier1, K.
Newcomb1, D. Rathman1, R.
Slattery1, A. Soares1, C.
Stevenson1, K. Warner1,D. Young1,
L.-P. Ang3, B. Mansoorian3, D.
Shaver1, 1MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington,
MA, 2Irvine Sensors Corporation, Costa Mesa, MA,
3Forza Silicon, Pasadena, CA
15:40-16:00 Break
   
Session 04 Analysis and trends Session Chair: Edoardo Charbon, Delft Univ., The Netherlands
16:00-16:15 Analysis of Dark Current in 4-Transistor CMOS Imager Pixel with
Negative Transfer-gate bias Operation
Hirofumi Yamashita, Motohiro Maeda, Shogo Furuya, Takanori Yagami.
Toshiba Corporation, Japan
16:15-16:30 Model-Free Power Spectral Density Estimation for Low-Light Level
CMOS Imaging Sensors
Radu
Ispasoiu, José Camara and Boyd Fowler. Fairchild Imaging, Inc.,
USA
16:30-16:45 Trends in Consumer CMOS Image Sensor Manufacturing
R. Fontaine. Chipworks, Canada
   
Session 05 16:45-18:00 Poster flash presentations Session Chair: Lindsay Grant, ST Microelectronics, UK
P1 Reduction of Band-to-band Tunneling in Deep-submicron CMOS Single
Photon Avalanche Photodiodes
Robert K. Henderson1, Justin Richardson1,2,
Lindsay Grant2. 1
The University of Edinburgh, Institute for Integrated Micro and
Nano Systems,
UK; 2STMicroelectronics Imaging Division, UK
P2 Flexible binning structure for CCD color imagers
Jan Bosiers, Harry van Kuijk, Agnes Kleimann, Inge Peters, Frank
Polderdijk.
DALSA Professional Imaging, The Netherlands
P3 CMOS image sensor with two-shared pixel and staggered readout
architecture
J. Bogaerts, G. Meynants, G. Lepage, G. Vanhorebeek, B. Ceulemans,
K. Ruythooren. CMOSIS nv, Belgium
P4 Effects of Negative Bias Operation and Optical Stress on Dark
Current
Takashi Watanabe1, Jong-Ho Park1, Satoshi
Aoyama1, Keigo Isobe1, Shoji Kawahito1,2
. 1Brookman Technology, Inc., Japan; 2Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Japan
P5 X-ray image sharpening by coincidence detection
B. Dierickx1,2, B. Dupont1, A.
Defernez1.
1Caeleste CVBA, Belgium; 2Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(VUB), Belgium
P6 An advanced CMOS Sensor in a novel quadruple well process
(INMAPS) for 100% Fill Factor and Full CMOS Pixels
J. Ballin2, R. Coath1, J. Crooks1,
P. Dauncey2, A.-M. Magnan2, Y.
Mikami3, O. Miller3, M. Noy2, V.
Rajovic3, M.
Stanitzki1, K. Stefanov1,
R. Turchetta1, M. Tyndel1, E. G. Villani1, N.
Watson3, J. Wilson3. 1

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK;2Department of
Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK;
3School of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Birmingham, UK
P7 Validated Dark Current Spectroscopy on a per-pixel basis in CMOS
image sensors
Eric A. G. Webster1, Robert Nicol2, Lindsay
Grant2, David Renshaw1. 1School of
Engineering & Electronics, University of Edinburgh, UK;
2STMicroelectronics (R&D) Ltd., UK
P8 Investigating the Ageing Effects on Image Sensors  Due to
Terrestrial Cosmic Radiation
Gayathri
G. Nampoothiri1, Albert J. P. Theuwissen1, 2.
1Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands;
2Harvest Imaging, Belgium 
BEST POSTER AWARD 2009 IISW
P9 A High Speed Pipelined Snapshot CMOS image sensor with 6.4
Gpixel/s data rate
Bart Cremers, Mukund Agarwal, Tom Walschap, Rajiv Singh,
Tomas Geurts.
Cypress Semiconductor, Belgium
P10 400×400 pixel image sensor for endoscopy in 1.7mm2 CSP Package
Bram Wolfs, Cedric Esquenet, Walter Iandolo. Cypress Semiconductor, Belgium.Presenter: Tomas Geurts
P11 Column Fixed Pattern Noise Suppression with STI profile control
in 1.75um Pixel CMOS Image Sensor
Hoon Jang, Tae Gyu Kim , So Eun Park, Joon Hwang. Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd., Korea
P12 A small footprint, streaming compliant, versatile wavelet
compression scheme forcameraphone imagers
L. Alacoque1, L. Chotard2, M.
Tchagaspanian1, J. Chossat2. 1
CEA LETI-MINATEC/SCME, Grenoble, France;
2STMicroelectronics, Grenoble, France
P13 A Modeling and Evaluation of the Random Telegraph Signal Noise on
a CMOS Image Sensor in Motion Pictures
Deng Zhang, Hiroaki Ammo1, Jegoon Ryu, Hirofumi
Sumi1, Toshihiro Nishimura. Graduate school of
Information, Production and Systems, WASEDA University;
1Sony Corporation, Japan
P14 Synchronous and Asynchronous Detection of Ultra-Low Light Levels
Christian Lotto1,3, Peter Seitz2,3. 1CSEM SA, Photonics Division, Switzerland; 2CSEM SA,
Nanomedicine Division, Switzerland; 3EPFL STI IMT-NE,
Federal Inst. of Technology, Switzerland
P15 From photons to electrons: a complete 3D simulation flow for CMOS
image sensor
Axel Crocherie, Pierre Boulenc, Jérôme Vaillant, Flavien Hirigoyen, Didier Hérault,Clément Tavernier.
STMicroelectronics, France
P16 Limitations to the frame rate of high speed image sensors
G. Meynants, G. Lepage, J. Bogaerts, G. Vanhorebeek, X. Wang. CMOSIS nv, Belgium
P17 A 4k@15,000 LPs High-Accuracy CMOS Linear Sensor Chip with
Programmable Gain and Offset and Embedded Digital Correction
Francisco Jiménez-Garrido1, Rafael
Domínguez-Castro1,2, Fernando Medeiro 1,2,
Alberto García, Cayetana Utrera, Rafael Romay, Angel
Rodríguez-Vázquez.1
AnaFocus
(Innovaciones Microelectrónicas S.L.), Spain;
2IMSE-CNM/CSIC and Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
P18 CMOS Image Sensor Sensitivity Improvement via Cumulative
Crosstalk Reduction
Igor Shcherback1, Elad Gan1, Lior
Blockstein2, Orly Yadid-Pecht1,2.
1
Pixel-Scan, Ltd, Israel; 2The VLSI Systems Center,
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
P19 CMOS image sensor architecture for high speed sparse image
content readout
A. Dupret1, B. Dupont2, M.
Vasiliu1, B. Dierickx2,3, A.
Defernez2. 1
Institutd’Electronique fondamentale, Université Paris Sud , France;
2
Caeleste
CVBA, Belgium; 3Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB),
Belgium
P20 CMOS Active Pixel Detectors For Radiography
Michael G. Farrier1, Thorsten Graeve
Achterkirchen1, Gene P. Weckler1, and

J. T. Bosiers2. 1Rad-icon Imaging Corp., USA. 2DALSA Professional Imaging, The Netherlands.
P21 An analog counter architecture for pixel-level ADC
Arnaud Peizerat, Michael Tchagaspanian, Christophe Mandier,
Bertrand Dupond, CEA/LETI, Grenoble, France
P22 Enhancement of Wide Dynamic Range CCD with 862MHz Data Rate
Kasey Boggs, Richard Bredthauer and Greg Bredthauer. Semiconductor
Technology Associates, Inc., USA
P23 Ultra small digital image sensor for endoscopic applications
Martin Wäny, Stephan Voltz, Fabio Gaspar, Lei Chen. AWAIBA Lda
P24 Comparison of Several Ramp Generator Designs for Column-Parallel
Single Slope ADCs
Yibing
(Michelle) Wang , Sang-Soo Lee, Kwang Oh Kim1. Hynix
Semiconductor America, Inc;,1Hynix Semiconductor,
Korea
18:00-18:45 Poster Viewing
19:00-21:00 Dinner
 

 

Saturday March 27, 2009

 

Session 06 Charge-Coupled Devices Session Chair: Junichi Nakamura, Aptina Imaging, Japan
08:30-09:10 Invited Presentation – III Backside Illuminated Image Sensors manufactured with Gradated
Double Epitaxial Layers: an Application to a High-speed
High-sensitivity Image Sensor
T. G. Etoh12, T. Hayashida2, H.
Maruyama2, T. Arai2, N. Uchiyama3
and T. Sakamoto3, 1Kinki University, Japan,
2NHK, Japan, 3Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan
09:10-09:25 Very-low Dark Current in FF-CCDs
I. M. Peters, E. W. Bogaart, W. Hoekstra, A. C. M. Kleimann,
J. T. Bosiers.
DALSA Professional Imaging, The Netherlands
09:25-09:40 Design and Characterization of Submicron CCDs in CMOS
Keith Fife, Abbas El Gamal, H.-S. Philip Wong. Department of
Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, USA
09:40-09:55 A 2/3-inch Low Noise HDTV FT CCD-Imager for 1080i180, 1080ip90
and 720p120 Scanning at Constant Image Diagonal
Peter Centen1, Holger Stoldt2, Jan
Visser3, Jan T. Bosiers2.
1 Grass Valley, TheNetherlands, 2DALSA Professional Imaging, The Netherlands; 3NIKHEF,
The Netherlands
09:55-10:10 High saturation output 1.55mm square pixel IT-CCD with metal
wiring line structure in a pixel
Takeshi Takeda, Yoshiaki Kitano, Shinji Miyazawa, Junji Yamane,
Keita Suzuki,Kunihiko Hikichi, Kaori Tai, Kotaro Harazono
1, Shogo Numaguti2, Yoshinori Uchida, Masao Kimura,
Mitsuru Sato, Hideo Kanbe, Nobuhiro Karasawa. Semiconductor Business
Group, Sony Corporation;
1Sony Semiconductor Kyusyu Corporation; 2Sony LSI Design
Inc., Japan
10:10-10:25 High Speed Impactron CCD Line Sensor with Color Sensing
Capability
Izumi Kobayashi1, Jaroslav Hynecek2,
1
Texas Instruments Japan LTD.; 2Isetex, Inc., USA
10:25-10:35 Break

 

   
Session 07 Various imager design topics – I Session Chair: Jaroslav Hynecek, Isetex, TX, USA
10:35-10:50 Characterization of In-Pixel Buried-Channel Source Follower with
Optimized Row Selector in CMOS Image Sensors
 
and 
REVISED AFTER IISW
Yue
Chen, Xinyang Wang, Adri J. Mierop, Albert J.P. Theuwissen.
Electronic Instrumentation Lab, Delft University of Technology,
Netherlands.
10:50-11:05 A Monolithic Ge-on-Si CMOS Imager for Short Wave Infrared
B. Ackland, C. Rafferty, C. King, I. Aberg, J. O’Neill, T. Sriram,
A. Lattes, C. Godek, S. Pappas.
NoblePeak Vision, USA
11:05-11:20 Integrated Polarization Image Sensor for Cell Detection
Viktor Gruev1, Jan Van der Spiegel2, Nader Engheta2.
1Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA;
2University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA
11:20-11:35 Polarization-analyzing CMOS image sensor with embedded wire-grid
polarizers
Takashi Tokuda, Hirofumi Yamada, Hiroya Shimohata, Kiyotaka,
Sasagawa, Jun Ohta. Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara
Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
11:35-11:50 Retinal stimulator embedded with light-sensing function in
distributed microchip architecture for subretinal implantation
Jun Ohta1, Takashi Tokuda1, Kohei
Hiyama1, Shigeki Sawamura1, Kiyotaka,
Sasagawa1, Kentaro Nishida2, Yoshiyuki
Kitaguchi2, Motohiro Kamei2, Takashi
Fujikado2, Yasuo Tano2. 1
Graduate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and
Technology, Japan; 2Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka
University, Japan
11:50-12:05 4.5 μm Pixel Pitch 154 ke- Full Well Capacity CMOS Image Sensor
Koichi Mizobuchi1, Satoru Adachi1, Hirokazu
Sawada1, Katsumi Ohta1,
HiromichiOshikubo1, Nana Akahane2, Shigetoshi
Sugawa2, 1Texas Instruments, Ibaraki,
Japan,2Graduate School of Engineering, Sendai, Japan
12:05-13:30 Lunch
13:30-18:00 Social event/excursion
18:00-18:45 Poster Viewing
19:00-21:00 Gala Dinner/WKA/ Best Poster Award
 

Sunday March 28, 2009

 

Session 08 3D Range Imaging Session Chair: Koichi Mizobuchi, Texas Instruments Japan
08:30-09:10 Invited Presentation – IV

Image Sensor Technologies for 3D Time-of-flight Range Imaging
Thierry Oggier, Mesa Imaging, Switzerland

09:10-09:30 High Speed Dual Port Pinned-photodiode for Time-Of-Flight Imaging
Cédric
Tubert1,3, Laurent Simony1, François
Roy2, Arnaud Tournier2, Luc
Pinzelli2, Pierre Magnan3.
1STMicroelectronics Grenoble, France;
2STMicroelectronicsCrolles, France;
3ISAE/CIMI, France
09:30-09:45 Ultra High Speed 3-D Image Sensor
Shingo Mandai1, Toru Nakura2, Makoto
Ikeda2 and Kunihiro Asada2. 1Dept.
of Electronic Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan;
2VLSI Design and Education Center(VDEC), University of
Tokyo, Japan
09:45-10:00 A 32×32 50ps Resolution Time to Digital Converter Array in 130nm
CMOS for Time Correlated Imaging
.
Justin Richardson1,2, Richard Walker1,2,
Lindsay Grant2, David Stoppa3,
FaustoBorghetti3, Edoardo Charbon4,5, Marek
Gersbach4,5, Robert K. Henderson1.
1 The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;
2STMicroelectronics, Imaging Division, Edinburgh, UK;
3Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;
4EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; 5TU Delft,
Delft, The Netherlands;
10:00-10:15 Random Telegraph Signal in Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes
Mohammad Azim Karami1, Cristiano Niclass2,
Edoardo Charbon1,2, 1Faculty of EEMSC, Delft
University of Technology, Netherlands; 2Department of
ECE, EcolePolytechnic Fédérale Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
10:15-10:30 A Low Dark Count Single Photon Avalanche Diode Structure
Compatible with Standard Nanometer Scale CMOS Technology
Justin Richardson1,2, Lindsay Grant2, Robert
K. Henderson1. 1The University of Edinburgh,
Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems,
UK;2STMicroelectronics Imaging Division, UK
10:30-10:45 Break
   
Session 09 High energy particle detection Session Chair: Bart Dierickx, Caeleste, Belgium
10:45-11:00 Characterization of 3D integrated APS for X-ray detection
G. Prigozhin1 V. Suntharalingam2, D.
Busacker2, R. Foster1, S. Kissel1,
B. LaMarr1, A. Soares2 M. Bautz1.
1Kavli
Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA; 2Lincoln Laboratory,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
11:00-11:40 Invited Presentation – V Flat-Panel Imaging Arrays for Digital Radiography
Timothy Tredwell1, Jeff Chang1, Jackson
Lai1, Greg Heiler1, John Yorkston1,
Jin Jang2, Jae Won Choi2, Jae Ik
Kim2, Seung Hyun Park2, Jun Hyuk
Cheon2, SauabhSaxena2, Won Kyu
Lee2, Arokia Nathan3, Eric Mozdy4,
Sung Eun Ahn4, Carlo KosikWilliams4, Jeffery
Cites4, Chuan Che Wang4
1Carestream Health, Rochester, NY,2Advanced
Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea,
3London Center for Nanotechnology, University College,
London, 4Corning Incorporated, NY, USA
11:40-12:00 Reset noise reduction architectures for the detection of charged
particles
R. Turchetta1, T. Anaxagoras1,2, J.
Crooks1, A. Godbeer1, N. Allinson2,
T. Pickering1, A. Blue3, D.
Maneuski3, V. O’Shea3. 1

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities
Council (STFC), U.K; 2Sheffield University, Department of
Electronic and Electrical Engineering, UK; 3University of
Glasgow, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UK
12:00-13:30 Lunch
   
Session 10 Invited Presentation, High energy particle detection and Large
format arrays
Session Chair: Pierre Magnan, ISAE/CIMI, Toulouse, France
13:30-13:45 Optoelectrical Performance Evolution of CMOS Image Sensors
Exposed to Gamma Radiation
V. Goiffon, M. Estribeau, P. Magnan. ISAE, Toulouse, France
13:45-14:00 A radiation tolerant 4T pixel for space applications
Manuel Innocent. Cypress Semiconductor, Belgium.
14:00-14:15 Large-Format Medical X-Ray CMOS Image Sensor for High Resolution
High Frame Rate Applications
R. Reshef, T. Leitner, S. Alfassi, E. Sarig, N. Golan, O. Berman,
A. Fenigstein, H. Wolf, G. Hevel, S. Vilan and A. Lahav. Tower
Semiconductor LTD, Israel
14:15-14:30 A wafer-scale CMOS APS imager for medical X-ray applications
L. Korthout, D.Verbugt, J.Timpert, A.Mierop, W.de Haan, W.Maes, J.
de Meulmeester, W. Muhammad, B. Dillen, H. Stoldt, I. Peters, E.
Fox. DALSA Professional Imaging, The Netherlands
14:30-14:45 Progress in 1.25-inch Digital-Output CMOS Image Sensor
Developments for UDTV Application
I. Takayanagi, S. Osawa, T. Bales, K. Kawamura, N. Yoshimura, K.
Kimura, H. Sugihara, E. Pages, A. Andersson, S. Matsuo, T. Oyama, M.
Haque, H. Honda, T. Kawaguchi, M. Shoda, B. Almond
1, P. Pahr2, S. Desumvila1, D. Wilcox1, Y. Mo3, J. Gleason3, T. Chow3
J. Nakamura. Aptina Japan, LLC.;
1
Aptina UK, Ltd.; 2 Aptina Norway, AS.; 3Aptina
LLC, USA
14:45-15:00 A 2.5 inch, 33Mpixel, 60 fps CMOS Image Sensor for UHDTV
Application
Steven Huang, Takayuki Yamashita1, Yibing Wang, Kai Ling
Ong, Kohji Mitani1,Ryohei Funatsu1, Hiroshi
Shimamoto1, Lin Ping Ang, Loc Truong, BarmakMansoorian.
Forza Silicon Corporation, USA; 1NHK Science and
Technical Laboratories
15:00-15:40 Invited Presentation – VI Image artifacts caused by pixel bias cells in CMOS imagers
targeted for mobile applications
Matthew Purcell, ST Microelectronics, U.K.
15:40-16:00 Break

 

 

   
Session 11 Various imager design topics – II Session Chair: Renato Turchetta, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Didcot, U.K.
16:00-16:15 A 1/3.4-inch 2.1-Mpixel 240-frames/s CMOS Image Sensor
1Seunghyun Lim, 1Jimin Cheon, 1Youngcheol
Chae, 2Wunki Jung, 2Dong-Hun
Lee,2Seogheon Ham, 1Dongsoo Kim, and
1Gunhee Han. 1Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
2System LSI Division, Semiconductor Business, Samsung
Electronics Co., Yongin-City, Kyungki-Do, Korea
16:15-16:30 Noise Reduction Effects of Column-Parallel Correlated Multiple
Sampling and Source-Follower Driving Current Switching for CMOS
Image Sensors
Shoji Kawahito, Sungho Suh, Takuma Shirei, Shinya Itoh, Satoshi
Aoyama1. Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka
University; 1Brookman Technology, Inc., Japan;
16:30-16:45 12Mpixel snapshot shutter CMOS image sensor with 5.5um pixels
operating @33fps with high shutter efficiency
Yannick
De Wit, John Compiet, Bartosz Banachowicz, Vladimir Korobov, Gert
Schippers. Cypress Semiconductor, Belgium
16:45-17:00 Implementing Global Shutter in a 4T Pixel
A. Krymski. Alexima, USA
17:00-17:15 Two-Stage Charge Transfer Pixel Using Pinned Diodes for Low-Noise
Global Shutter Imaging
Keita Yasutomi1, Shinya Itoh1, Shoji
Kawahito1, Toshihiro Tamura2.
1Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University,
Japan; 2Photron Ltd., Japan
17:15-17:30 Design of photo-electron barrier for the Memory Node of a Global
Shutter pixel based on a Pinned Photodiode
Assaf Lahav1, Adi Birman, Muriel Cohen, Tomer Leitner,
Amos Fenigstein
. 1 Tower Semiconductor LTD, Israel
17:30-17:45 Wide Dynamic Range Low Light Level CMOS Image Sensor
Boyd Fowler, Chiao Liu, Steve Mims, Janusz Balicki, Wang Li, Hung
Do, Paul Vu.
Fairchild Imaging, Inc., USA
17:45-18:00 A 1280×960 3.75um pixel CMOS imager with Triple Exposure HDR
Johannes Solhusvik1, Sohrab Yaghmai1, Arthur
Kimmels1, Christian Stephansen1, Alf
Storm1, Jenny Olsson1, Anders
Rosnes1, Tore Martinussen1, Trygve
Willassen1, Per Olaf Pahr1, Siri
Eikedal1, Steve Shaw2, Ranjit
Bhamra2, Sergey Velichko3, Dan
Pates3, Sachin Datar3, Scott
Smith3, Lingtao Jiang3, Dave Wing3,
Ajaya Chilumula3,1Aptina Imaging, Oslo,
Norway,2Aptina Imaging, Bracknell, UK, 3Aptina
Imaging, San Jose, CA, USA
18:00-18:05 Closing remarks Nobukazu Teranishi – IISW Steering Committee and Host in 2011
19:00-21:00 Dinner