A readout integrated circuit for sensitive infrared photodetection operating in intense backgrounds

PNA Belmonte, DW de Lima Monteiro - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2020 - Elsevier
Infrared photodetection generally presents some u. ndesirable features: low detector shunt
resistance, large pixel dark current, high noise levels, and intense background signal. These …

A high performance integrated readout circuit for wavefront sensors

PNA Belmonte, UV Abecassis, L Chaves, LP Salles… - SN Applied …, 2020 - Springer
This work presents an integrated pixel topology that promises to offer superior performance
in a Hartmann–Shack Wavefront Sensor (WFS) with an orthogonal array of Quad Cells …

On overcoming photodetector saturation due to background illumination while maintaining high sensitivity by means of a tailored CMOS pixel

PNA Belmonte, LM Chaves, FS Torres… - 2018 Global LIFI …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visible Light Communication is a good candidate to substitute, or at least to work along with
Wi-Fi at indoor environments. Nonetheless, it still faces several challenges, like the …

A pixel concept that simultaneously enables high dynamic range, high sensitivity and operation in intense backgrounds

PNA Belmonte, LM Chaves… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
There is an increasing demand for clear and accurate images in both extreme brightness
and darkness, therefore imposing a challenge to pixel design. We present in this paper a …

[PDF][PDF] Linear mode high dynamic range bouncing pixel with single transistor

CA de Moraes Cruz, PNA Belmonte… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - imagesensors.org
A single NMOS pixel topology employing high dynamic range (HDR) bouncing scheme is
proposed in this work. Previous pixel solutions employing such HDR bouncing scheme …

Integrated light sensing and communication for LED lighting

M Ruo Roch, M Martina - Designs, 2018 - mdpi.com
Solid state lighting is nowadays widely diffused both in residential and office or industrial
environment. Ambient light sensing to modulate lamp power is typical too, but sensors inside …

Extended electronic and optical solutions for sensitive infrared photodetection

PNA Belmonte - 2017 - repositorio.ufmg.br
This work aims to address the two main parts of an infrared photodetection system, which
are the optics and the readout electronics. Also, an idealized example of a CO2 gas …

Self-amplified CMOS image sensor using a current-mode readout circuit

PM Santos, DW de Lima Monteiro… - Optical Sensing and …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The feature size of the CMOS processes decreased during the past few years and problems
such as reduced dynamic range have become more significant in voltage-mode pixels, even …

A Low Cost ALS and VLC Circuit for Solid State Lighting

M Ruo Roch, M Martina - … , Environment and Society: APPLEPIES 2018 6, 2019 - Springer
Solid state lighting is nowadays widely diffused both in residential and office or industrial
environment. Ambient light sensing to modulate lamp power is typical, too, but sensors …

A low cost ALS and VLC circuit for solid state lighting

MR Roch, M Martina - Applications in Electronics Pervading …, 2019 - books.google.com
Solid state lighting is nowadays widely diffused both in residential and office or industrial
environment. Ambient light sensing to modulate lamp power is typical, too, but sensors …