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Low-Noise CMOS Image Sensors

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CMOS image sensors (CIS) as known today are the fruit of several decades of research and development culmination starting from the discovery of the photodetecting effect of pn junctions and the implementation of charge coupled devices CCDs as image sensors to the development of pinned photo-diodes (PPDs) in CMOS technology.

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Boukhayma, A. (2018). Low-Noise CMOS Image Sensors. In: Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors . Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68774-2_2

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