A fully digital readout employing extended counting method to achieve very low quantization noise

Kayahan, Hüseyin and Ceylan, Ömer and Yazıcı, Melik and Gürbüz, Yaşar (2013) A fully digital readout employing extended counting method to achieve very low quantization noise. In: Conference on Infrared Technology and Applications XXXIX, Baltimore, MD

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Abstract

This paper presents a digital ROIC for staring type arrays with extending counting method to realize very low quantization noise while achieving a very high charge handling capacity. Current state of the art has shown that digital readouts with pulse frequency method can achieve charge handling capacities higher than 3Ge(-) with quantization noise higher than 1000e(-). Even if the integration capacitance is reduced, it cannot be lower than 1-3 fF due to the parasitic capacitance of the comparator. For achieving a very low quantization noise of 200 electrons in a power efficient way, a new method based on measuring the time to measure the remaining charge on the integration capacitor is proposed. With this approach SNR of low flux pixels are significantly increased while large flux pixels can store electrons as high as 2.33Ge(-). A prototype array of 32x32 pixels with 30um pitch is implemented in 90nm CMOS process technology for verification. Simulation results are given for complete readout.
Item Type: Papers in Conference Proceedings
Additional Information: Article Number: 870431
Uncontrolled Keywords: ROIC; DROIC; digital ROIC; staring array; quantization noise
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Academic programs > Electronics
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: Yaşar Gürbüz
Date Deposited: 20 Jan 2014 14:57
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 09:13
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/23395

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