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Over 100 Million Frames per Second 368 Frames Global Shutter Burst CMOS Image Sensor with In-pixel Trench Capacitor Memory Array
Manabu Suzuki1, Rihito Kuroda1, Shigetoshi Sugawa1
1Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-11-811, Aza-Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan 980-8579

Abstract

In this paper, a prototype ultra-high-speed global shutter CMOS image sensor with in-pixel trench capacitor memory array achieving over 100M frames per second with up to 368 record length by burst CDS operation is demonstrated.
Publisher: IISS (Int. Image Sensors Society)
Year: 2019
Workshop: IISW
URL: https://doi.org/10.60928/77jm-ncwi
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Keywords

Ultra-high-speed imaging, Global shutter CMOS sensor, In-pixel trench capacitor memory array,

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