1. IMAGE SENSOR
Team 5: Minh Nguyen & Linh Hoang Tuan
Advisor: Dr. Loan Pham Nguyen
Ha Noi, 3rd November 2015
Hanoi University of Science and Technology
School of Electronics and Telecommunications
4. I. INTRODUCTION
The most popular image sensors types:
CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor)
CCD (Charge Coupled Device)
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Brands: Toshiba, Fujifilm, Nikon, Kodak
Source: Internet Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor: chất bán dẫn kim loại ôxit bù
5. II. CMOS IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 5
CMOS’s Architecture:
2 Technologies of CMOS Image Sensor
6. II. CMOS IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 6
Operation in Photodiode & Circuit
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Signal is integrated under PG
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Floating diffusion (FD) is reset
FD Voltage sampled onto CR
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Charge is transferred to FD
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Voltage on FD sampled onto CS
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Pixel data is driven onto differential
horizontal bus
8. III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 8
• CCD = Charge Coupled Device
• converting light into electric
charge
• a device for the movement of
electrical charge
• shifting the signals between
stages one at a time
Charge Coupled Device: Linh kiện tích điện kép
9. III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 9
George E. Smith and Willard Boyle, 2009
• 1969, Geoge Smith & Williard Boyle, the first CCD
• 1971, M.Tompsett, capturing images with simple linear devices
• 1975, Steven Sasson, the first digital camera using CCD
• Since 1983, collecting images in astronomy and the satellite’s camera
• 2009, Geoge Smith & Williard Boyle, Nobel Prize for Physics
Astronomy: thiên văn học; Satellite: vệ tinh
10. Source: Internet 10
Silicon needs 1.2 eV to release (e) from atomic lattice
Visible light has 1.6 to 3.4 eV available
III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Reverse Biased PN Photo Diode
11. III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 11
Principle of Operation of CCD Image Sensor
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Vertical shift register: thanh ghi dịch hàng dọc; Potential Well: giếng thế; Substrate: chất nền
12. III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 12
Principle of Operation of CCD Image Sensor
Serial shift register: thanh ghi dịch theo chuỗi
13. III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 13
Principle of Operation of CCD Image Sensor
Photodiode
Light strikes
the chip
A small electrical
charge in each
photo sensor
Voltage one pixel
Digital Signal
ADC
14. III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 14
ROW
COLUMN
Electrons
shifted down
by carefully
timed voltages
on the CCD
chip electrodes
Electrons shifted out towards
amplifier and ADC
Principle of Operation of CCD Image Sensor
15. III. CCD IMAGE SENSOR
Source: Internet 15
The image processor takes the information from each CCD.
The true color pixels of the image is made by averaging the values
from the surrounding CCD’s
2D array
16. IV. SUMMARY
CCD Technology
Virtue: Low noise
Space Applications
Vice:
• High power
• Slow speed
• Non-standard manufacture
CMOS Technology
Virtue:
• Low power
• Fast Speed
• “Easy” manufacture
Vice: High Noise
Source: Internet 16
17. Photographic Cameras
IV. SUMMARY
CCD and CMOS have a wide range of applications:
Source: Internet 17
CCTV Cameras
Video Cameras Photocopiers Bar-code Readers
1. A charge-coupled device (CCD) is a device for the movement of electrical charge, usually from within the device to an area where the charge can be manipulated, for example conversion into a digital value.
2. This is achieved by "shifting" the signals between stages within the device one at a time.
History of CMOS TECHNOLOGY
In 2009 they were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics,[13] for their invention of the CCD concept.
1. A photodiode is a PN junction
2. When a photon of sufficient energy strikes the diode,
it excites an electron,
thereby creating a mobile electron and a positively charged hole.
3 photodiode
3 storage cell
the positively charged electrode
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Silicon = base material
Silicon Dioxide = coating material
Polysilicon = top layer material
-> Let’s talk clearly about the princilpe
Move ROW 0 into serial shift register
{
{
Move serial shift column 0 into Amlifier
Read out the analogue Voltage from amplifier into ADC
Store Digital value in Memory for this R0 C0 position
Serially shift all columns in serial shift register
Column 4 to 3, 3 to 2, 2 to 1, 1 to 0
-> repeat process until all columns have been read
}
Move every ROW 1 into ROW 0, ROW 4 to 3, 3 to 2, 2 to 1
Repeat the serial shift register read out
}
-> repeat until every ROW has been shifted down to ROW 0 and shifted out through the serial shift register
Each CCD represents one pixel in an image. A 2D array of CCD’s produces an entire image
(2 Green because the human eye is more sensitive to slight variations of green than any other color)
The image processor takes the information from each CCD and makes a true color pixels of the image by averaging the values from the surrounding CCD’s
Manufacture: CCD requires separate production lines while could use chip production line, conventional circuit board to produce CMOS.
Summary: Yet between 2000 people began to pay more attention to the CMOS sensor chip appearing at 3.2 million pixels and up to early 2002 the introduction of CMOS 6 million pixels made public sex technology amazement, admiration.