Full-color-sorting metalenses for high-sensitivity image sensors

M Miyata, N Nemoto, K Shikama, F Kobayashi… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Image sensors play a critical role in current technologies ranging from smartphones to
autonomous vehicles. In these technologies, high-sensitivity image sensors are highly …

Photon-number-resolving megapixel image sensor at room temperature without avalanche gain

J Ma, S Masoodian, DA Starkey, ER Fossum - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In several emerging fields of study such as encryption in optical communications,
determination of the number of photons in an optical pulse is of great importance. Typically …

Technological evolution of image sensing designed by nanostructured materials

MA Iqbal, M Malik, TK Le, N Anwar, S Bakhsh… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Imaging sensing holds a remarkable place in modern electronics and optoelectronics for the
complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor integration of high-speed optical …

Efficient colour splitters for high-pixel-density image sensors

S Nishiwaki, T Nakamura, M Hiramoto, T Fujii… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
When the pixel size of image sensors shrinks to the wavelength of light, this results in low
signal levels for a given photon flux per pixel as a result of scaling laws. Because many …

Vertically stacked photodetector devices containing silicon nanowires with engineered absorption spectra

H Park, KB Crozier - Acs Photonics, 2015 - ACS Publications
We fabricate a vertically stacked photodetector device containing silicon nanowire
photodetectors formed above a silicon substrate that also contains a photodetector. The …

A back-illuminated high-sensitivity small-pixel color CMOS image sensor with flexible layout of metal wiring

S Iwabuchi, Y Maruyama, Y Ohgishi… - … Solid State Circuits …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 1.3 M pixel color image sensor with a back-illuminated configuration and 3.45 μm square
pixels is fabricated in 0.25 μm 1P3M CMOS. Its sensitivity at a wavelength of 550nm is 34 …

Three dimensional sensors, systems, and associated methods

J Jiang, J McKee, H Haddad, CS Hong - US Patent 8,698,084, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT 3D sensors, systems, and associated methods are provided. In one aspect,
for example, a monolithic 3D sensor for detecting infrared and visible light can include a …

[PDF][PDF] Image sensors and image quality in mobile phones

J Alakarhu - International Image Sensor Workshop, 2007 - Citeseer
This paper considers image sensors and image quality in camera phones. A method to
estimate the image quality and performance of an image sensor using its key parameters is …

Back illuminated sensor with low crosstalk

JP McCarten, JR Summa, CA Tivarus - US Patent 7,838,956, 2010 - Google Patents
An electronic image sensor captures images using light sensitive photodetectors that
convert incident light into elec trical signals. Image sensors are generally classified as either …

A compressed and high-accuracy star tracker with on-orbit deployable baffle for remote sensing cubesats

X Liu, F Xing, S Fan, Z You - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
CubeSats have been widely used in remote sensing applications such as global coverage,
hotspots revisited, etc. However, due to the strict size limitation, the high-accuracy …