Hot carriers effects and electroluminescence in the CMOS photodiode active pixel sensors

Stephan Maestre; Pierre Magnan; Francis Lavernhe; Franck Corbiere

doi:10.1117/12.476792

16 May 2003 Hot carriers effects and electroluminescence in the CMOS photodiode active pixel sensors

Stephan Maestre, Pierre Magnan, Francis Lavernhe, Franck Corbiere

Proceedings Volume 5017, Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications IV; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476792
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate that an electroluminescence phenomenon associated to hot carriers generation of the in-pixel source follower transistor can occur in CMOS APS pixels. These effects have been observed in several process generations ranging from 0.7μm to 0.25μm with various power supply voltage values. This paper is focused mainly on the behavior of 0.5μm and 0.25μm generation. It is shown that when a pixel is selected its follower transistor can generate excess minority carriers, and that a small amount of these charges flows towards the photosensitive area to be collected. This implies a significant drop of the photodiode voltage when the amount of the collected carriers becomes larger than the junction leakage current.

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Stephan Maestre, Pierre Magnan, Francis Lavernhe, and Franck Corbiere "Hot carriers effects and electroluminescence in the CMOS photodiode active pixel sensors", Proc. SPIE 5017, Sensors and Camera Systems for Scientific, Industrial, and Digital Photography Applications IV, (16 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.476792

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