High-performance CMOS image sensors at BAE SYSTEMS Imaging Solutions

摘要

In this paper, we present an overview of high-performance CMOS image sensor products developed at BAE SYSTEMSImaging Solutions designed to satisfy the increasingly challenging technical requirements for image sensors used inadvanced scientific, industrial, and low light imaging applications. We discuss the design and present the test results of afamily of image sensors tailored for high imaging performance and capable of delivering sub-electron readout noise,high dynamic range, low power, high frame rates, and high sensitivity. We briefly review the performance of theCIS2051, a 5.5-Mpixel image sensor, which represents our first commercial CMOS image sensor product thatdemonstrates the potential of our technology, then we present the performance characteristics of the CIS1021, a full HDformat CMOS image sensor capable of delivering sub-electron read noise performance at 50 fps frame rate at full HDresolution. We also review the performance of the CIS1042, a 4-Mpixel image sensor which offers better than 70% QE@ 600nm combined with better than 91dB intra scene dynamic range and about 1 e- read noise at 100 fps frame rate atfull resolution.© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.