2001 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and

Advanced Image Sensors

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, June 7

 

8:30                 Opening Remarks:                                                                                     

                        Eric Fossum  Sayed Eid  Jerry Hynecek

 

Session 1.       CMOS Sensors I

                        Chairman: Gary Hughes

 

9:00                 A Micropower Self-Clocked Camera-on-a-Chip                                  (12)

                        K.B. Cho1, A. Krymski2, E.R. Fossum2

                        1Photobit Corporation, 2Photobit Technology Corporation                                 

 

9:20                 A 3.25M-pixel APS-C Size CMOS Image Sensor                                (16)

                        S. Inoue1, K. Sakurai1, I. Ueno1, T. Koizumi1, H. Hiyama1, T. Asaba1, S. Sugawa2, A. Maeda3, K. Higashitani3, H. Kato3, K. Iizuka4, M. Yamawaki4

                        1Canon Inc. Device Development Center, 2Department of Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University,  3Mitsubishi Electric Corporation ULSI Development center,  4Mitsubishi Electric Corporation LSI Division

 

9:40                 Dynamically Reconfigurable Vision CMOS Image Sensor

                        for Real-Time Staring Active Vision Systems                                   (20)

                        G. Yang, C. Sun, C. Wrigley, D. Stack, C. Kramer, and B. Pain

                        Center for Space Microelectronic Technology,

                        JPL, California Institute of Technology

 

10:00               Morning Break

 

10:30               A High-Sensitivity Oversampling Digital Signal Detection Technique

                        for CMOS Image Sensors Using Non-Destructive Intermediate High-Speed Readout Mode     (24)

                        S. Kawahito1, N. Kawai2, and Y. Tadokoro2

1Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University,  2Toyohashi University of Technology

 

10:45               A High Speed, 240 Frames/s 4 Megapixel CMOS Sensor                (28)

                        A. Krymski, N. Bock, D. VanBlerkom, N. Tu, E.R. Fossum

                        Photobit Technology Corporation

 

11:00               A 640 x 480 CMOS Image Sensor for

                        High Speed Image Capture                                                                  (32)

                        E.C. Fox, G.R. Allan, B. Li, D. Dattani, S. Kamasz, M.J. Kiik, Q. Tang,  A. Pavlov, D. Dykaar, S.G. Ingram

                        DALSA Corp.

 

11:15               CMOS Image Sensor with CIF/QCIF Switching Function                (36)

                        K. Hara, K. Simomura, Y. Endo, K. Okui, S. Komori, and K. Kyuma

                        Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

 

11:30               A New Image Sensor with Programmable Spatially Variant

                        Multiresolution Readout Capability                                                  (40)

                        Y. Ohtsuka, I. Ohta, and K. Aizawa

                        Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo

 

11:45               Lunch

 

Session 2.       CMOS Sensors II & CMOS Sensor Technology I

                        Chairman: Dan McGrath

 

1:30                 2/3” CMOS Imaging Sensor for High Definition Television           (44)

                        M. Loose, L.J. Kozlowski, A.M. Joshi, A. Kononenko, S. Xue,

                        J. Lin, J. Luo, I. Ovsiannikov, J. Clarke, and T. Paredes

                        Rockwell Science Center

 

1:50                 A Mega-Pixel High Speed CMOS Imager

                        with Sustainable Gigapixel/sec Readout Rate                                 (48)

                        S. Lauxtermann1, G. Izrael1, P. Seitz1, H. Bloss2, J. Ernst2,

                        H. Firla2, S. Gick2

                                1Philips Semiconductors, 2CSEM

 

2:10                 A CMOS Image Sensor with Non-Destructive Intermediate Readout

                        Mode for Adaptive Iterative Search Motion Vector Estimation     (52)

                        D. Handoko1, S.Kawahito1, Y. Tadokoro2, and A. Matsuzawa3

1Shizuoka University, 2Toyohasi University of Technology,

3Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.

 

2:30                 Fixed Pattern Noise Suppression by a Differential Readout Chain

                        for a Radiation-Tolerant Image Sensor                                              (56)

                        G. Meynants, J. Bogaerts, B. Dierickx, and D. Uwaerts

                        FillFactory

 

2:45                 A CMOS Image Sensor Employing a Double Junction Photodiode (60)

                        K.M. Findlater1, D. Renshaw1, J.E.D. Hurwitz2, R.K. Henderson2,

                        T.E.R. Bailey2, J.M. Raynor2

                        1Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering,

                        The University of Edinburgh, 2ST Microelectronics Imaging Division

              

3:00                 Afternoon Break

 

3:30                 Small CMOS Pixel Design with Single Row Line                              (64)

                        V. Berezin,  Photobit Corporation

 

3:45                 A Crosstalk Study on CMOS Active Pixel Sensor Arrays

                        for Color Imager Applications                                                             (68)

                        C.C. Wang, C.G. Sodini

                        Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

 

 

 

 

Session 3.       CMOS & CCD Sensors, Poster Session

                        Chairman: Selim Bencuya

 

4:00                 Poster Session Rules Explanation

 

4:15                 A VGA ISIS for a Video Camera of 1,000,000 fps: A Proposal          (72)

                        T. G. Etoh1, H. Mutoh2, C. Lohmann1, and T. Reisinger1

                        1Kinki University, 2Link Research Corporation

 

4:20                 Resolution Progress of Image Sensor Over Nyquist Rate

                        Using Digital Signal Processing and Optical Low-Pass Filter         (76)

                        T. Kimura, H. Gotoh, M. Anodou, and H. Shiraki

                        Department of Systems Engineering, Ibaraki University  

 

4:25                 Radiation Hardness Study of an APS CMOS Particle Tracker         (80)

                        W. Dulinski

                        LEPSI IN2P3/ULP

 

4:30                 Hexagonal Array Processing                                                               (83)

                        M.D. Purcell1, D. Renshaw1, K.M. Findlater1, J.E.D. Hurwitz2,

                        S.G. Smith2, T.E.R. Bailey2

                        1Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering

                        The University of Edinburgh, 2ST Microelectronics Imaging Division 

 

4:35                 Dual Mode Active Pixel Sensor with Focal Plane Edge Detection  (87)

                        M. Tabet and R.I. Hornsey

                        Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo 

 

4:40                 Design and Development of a Compact Gamma Camera

                        for the Detection of Malignant Sentinel Lymph Nodes                   (91)

                        D. Lowe, A. Truman, A. Bergman, and H.L. Kwok

                        Department of ECE, University of Victoria

 

4:45                 Charge Sharing Modeling in Pixel Detectors

                        with Capacitive Charge Division                                                        (95)

                        J. Marczewski1, D. Tomaszewski1, K. Domanski1, P. Grabiec1,

                        M. Caccia2, S. Borghi3, and R Campagnolo3, W. Kucewicz4

1Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw,

2Universita ‘dell’Insubria and INFN,

3Universita’degli Studi di Milano and INFN, 4University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow

 

4:50                 Characterization Methodology for Micro-Lens Performance

                        in CMOS Image Sensors                                                                      (99)

                        V. Korobov, C. Cork, H. Wolf, S. Fainleib

                        TOWER Semiconductor LTD. 

 

4:55                 Low Dark-Current CCD Register

                        Driven from Back Electrodes Through Barrier                                (103)

                        H. Shiraki and T. Kimura

                        Ibaraki University

 

5:00                 Improved One-Dimensional Analysis of CMOS Photodiode

                        Including Epitaxial-Substrate Junction                                          (106)

                        J.S. Lee, R.I. Hornsey

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Waterloo

 

5:05                 Characterization of Pixel Response Time and Image Lag

                        in CMOS Sensors                                                                               (110)

                        S. Ramaswami, S. Agwani, L. Loh, N. Bossemeyeer

                        Image Capture Operation, Motorola Inc.

 

5:10                 Custom Imager as Wavefront Sensor                                              (114)

                        D.W. deLimaMonteiro, G. Vdovin

                        ITS/DIMES, Delft University of Technology

 

5:15                 Short Evening Break

 

5:30                 Discussion Session

                        Coordinator: Orly Yadid-Pecht

 

6:30-8:00         Dinner

 

Session 4.       Poster Viewing

                        Coordinator: Orly Yadid-Pecht

 

8:00-9:00         All poster paper authors should attend their displays

 


Friday, June 8

 

Session 5.       CMOS Sensor Technology II

                        Chairman: J.E.D. Hurwitz

 

8:30                 A Four-Transistor Capacitive Feedback Reset Active Pixel

                        and its Reset Noise Reduction Capability                                       (118)

                        I. Takayanagi, Y. Fukunaga, T. Yoshida, and J. Nakamura

                        Advanced Technology Research Center, Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.

 

8:50                 Effects of Hydrogen Annealing on 0.25-um CMOS Image Sensor (122)

                        D.N. Yaung, S.G. Wuu, H.C. Chien, C.H. Tseng, and C.S. Wang

                        Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

           

9:10                 CMOS Difference Imager with Charge-Leakage Compensation

                        & Sum Output                                                                                     (125)

                        S. Seshadri, G. Yang, M. Ortiz, C. Wrigley, and B. Pain

Center for Space Microelectronics Technology, JPL,

California Institute of Technology

 

9:30                 Analysis of APS Readout Circuit Delay                                            (129)

                        K. Salama and A. ElGamal

                        Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University                             

 

9:45                 Crosstalk and Sub-Pixel Distribution of Sensitivity

                        in Color CMOS Image Sensor                                                           (133)

                        G. Agranov, V. Berezin, R.H. Tsai

                        Photobit Corporation

 

10:00               Morning Break

 

10:30               A High Dynamic Range CMOS APS Image Sensor                          (137)

                        Y. Wang, S.L. Barna, S. Campbell, and E.R. Fossum

                        Photobit Technology Corporation

 

10:50               A 192 x 124 CMOS Image Sensor

                        with Pixel Parallel Temporal Computing Architecture                  (141)

                        S. Yoshimura, T. Sugiyama, K. Yonemoto, K. Ueda

                        Sony-Kihara Research Center, Inc.

 

11:10               A 6.6M Pixel CMOS Image Sensor for

                        Electrostatic PCB Inspection                                                            (145)

                        D. Scheffer1, G. Meynants1, B. Dierickx1, T. Fujii2

                        1FillFactory, 2OHT Inc.

 

11:30               Inverted Logarithmic Active Pixel Sensor with Current Readout (149)

                        C.S. Hong, R.I. Hornsey

                        Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering,

University of Waterloo

 

11:45               kTC Noise Cancellation Pixel                                                           (153)

                        R.B. Merrill,  Foveon, Inc.

 

12:00               Lunch

 

Session 6.       CMOS Sensor Technology III

                        Chairman: Paul K. Lee

 

1:30                 CMOS Active Pixel Sensor with In-Pixel Contrast Stretching      (157)

                        C.S. Hong, R.I. Hornsey

                        Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

                        University of Waterloo

 

1:45                 Differential Mode CMOS APS

                        for Optically Programmable Gate Array (OPGA)                              (161)

                        S.U. Ay1,3, S. Barna2, E.R. Fossum1

1Photobit Technology Corporation, 2Photobit Corporation

                        3Department of Electrical Engineering-Electrophysics,

                        University of Southern California

 

2:00                 Column Parallel A/D Conversion on CMOS Image Sensor            (165)

                        T. Hamamoto, T. Wakamatsu, N. Inokihara, K. Aizawa

                        Science University of Tokyo

 

2:15                 Empirical CMOS APS MTF Modeling                                               (169)

                        I. Shcherback, O. Yadid-Pecht

                        Ben-Gurion University

 

2:30                 CMOS Photodiodes with Substrate Openings

                        for Higher Conversion Gain in Active Pixel Sensors                      (173)

                        J.S. Lee, R.I. Hornsey

                        Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

                        University of Waterloo

 

2:45                 How to Design CMOS APS for Particle Tracking                             (176)

                        G. Deptuch                                                                                                  

                        IReS IN2P3/ULP

 

Session 7.       Workshop Social Activity

                        Coordinator: Sayed Eid

 

3:00-7:00         Boat Cruise

 

7:00-8:30         Dinner

 


Session 8.       CMOS Sensor Applications

                        Chairman: Bart Dierickx

 

8:30                 CMOS Sensor for the Detection of Minimum Ionizing Particles  (180)

                        R. Turchetta1, C. Didcot2

                        1Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 2OX11, 0QX

                         

8:45                 Development of CMOS Image Sensor Overlaid with a HARP

                        Photoconversion Layer                                                                      (184)

                        T. Hayashida, M. Yamaguchi, M. Kosugi, T. Watabe, Y. Ishiguro,

                        K. Moroboshi, H. Ohtake, H. Kokubun, T. Watanabe, K. Tanioka

                        NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories

 

9:00                 A Retina/V1 Simple Cell Chip for Physiology Experiment

                        Design or Classroom Demonstration                                               (188)

                        T. Delbruck, S. Bovet, E. Chicca, S.C. Liu, G.M. Ricci

                        Institute for Neuroinformatics (INI)

 

 

Saturday, June 9

 

Session 9.       Walter Kosonocky Award

                        Chairman: Albert Theuwissen

 

8:30                 Walter Kosonocky Award Paper Presentation                                 (192)

 

Session 10.    CCD Image Sensors and Other Imaging Devices

                        Chairman: Gareth Ingram

 

9:00                 A Color Image Sensor with 9um Pixels

                        for High-End Digital Still Photography                                            (193)

                        C. Draijer, G. Kreider, B. Dillen, W. Klaassens, H. Peek, A. Theuwissen

                        Philips Semiconductors Image Sensors

 

9:20                 Impactron-A New Solid State Image Intensifier                              (197)

                        J. Hynecek, ISETEX, Inc.

 

9:40                 3.4M Pixel TDI Image Sensor for

                        Confocal Scanning Microscopy                                                         (201)

                        I. Itoi, Y. Miura, S. Okamura, S. Kashima, H. Shibuya

                        Texas Instruments Japan Ltd.

 

9:55                 The Perfect Imager for Digital Still Cameras                                 (205)

                        J. Bosiers, E. Roks

                        Philips Semiconductors Image Sensors

 

10:10               Enhanced Full Well for Vertical Antiblooming,

                        High Sensitivity Time-Delay and Integration (TDI) CCDs

                        with GHz Data Rates                                                                          (209)

                        S.R. Kamasz, S.P. Singh, S.G. Ingram, M.J. Kiik, Q. Tang, B. Benwell

                        DALSA, Inc. 

 

10:25               Morning Break

 

10:45               Dual Linescan Architecture for High Responsivity

                        and Low Photon Shot Noise                                                              (213)

                        N. O

                        DALSA, Inc.

 

11:00               Ultra-High-Sensitivity New Super-HARP Pickup Tube                    (216)

                        K. Tanioka1, Y. Ohkawa1, K. Miyakawa1, S. Suzuki1, T. Takahata1,

N. Egami1, K. Ogusu2, A. Kobayashi2, T. Hirai2, T. Kawai2

1NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories

2Hamamatsu Photonics, K.K.

 

11:15               Correction of Radiation Damage in the Chandra X-ray CCDs       (220)

                        G. Prigozhin, M. Bautz, S. Kissel, B. LaMarr, G. Ricker

                        Center for Space Research, MIT

 

11:30               An Ultra-High-Speed Camera with an In-situ Storage Image Sensor

                        for Preliminary Test                                                                          (224)

            D. Poggemann1, T.G. Etoh1, A. Ruckelshausen1, G. Kreider2,

            A. Theuwissen2, Y. Kondo3, H. Maruno3, K. Takubo3, and H. Soya3

1Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences,

University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck,

2Philips Semiconductors,

3Shimadzu Corporation

 

11:45               High Burst Rate CCDs

                        Capable of Imaging at > 1 Million Frames Per Second                  (228)

                        P. Swain, R. Kabra, V. Patel, M. Bhaskaran, J. Andrews,

                        P. Levine, J. Tower

                        Sarnoff Corporation

                                                                                                                       

12:00               Concluding Remarks

                        Eric Fossum

 

12:15               Adjourn