WORKSHOP PAPER
ORION sensor 10um 66Mpixel high dynamic range and sub-electron dark noise image sensor
Jose Segovia1, Alberto Villegas1, Rafael Dominguez1, Loli Pardo1, Alex Charlet1, Luis Alba1, Sony Cherivan2, Jason Nottingham3, Len Colavito2, Ana Gonzalez1, Ángel Rodríguez-Vázquez4
1Teledyne Anafocus, Isaac Newton 4, Planta 5 SE-NE, 41092, Sevilla, Spain
2Teledyne Princeton Instruments, 3660 Quakerbridge Rd, Trenton, NJ USA 08619
3Teledyne Photometrics, 3440 E Britannia Dr. Suite 100, Tucson, AZ USA 85706
4Institute of Microelectronics of Seville (IMSE-CNM), CSIC-Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Abstract

This paper presents a large scale 8k x 8k CMOS image sensor performing low noise and High Dynamic Range (HDR). The sensor embeds a 10 μm pixel with dual conversion gain featuring full well capacity (FWC) higher than 120 Ke- and sub-electron dark noise within the same image, providing > 100 dB dynamic range. The ORION sensor is back side illuminated allowing quantum efficiency (QE) greater than 90% with a dark current lower than 0.006 e/sec at -22 ⁰C. The device includes flexible operation modes enabling rolling shutter and global shutter, with different ADC resolutions to exchange noise performances and speed, being suitable for different low noise applications.
Year: 2025
Workshop: IISW
URL: https://doi.org/10.60928/xqyh-dr30
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Keywords

CMOS image sensor, HDR, dark current,

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