A novel CMOS sensor with in-pixel auto-zeroed discrimination for charged particle tracking

作者：Degerli Y^*; Guilloux F; Orsini F

来源：Journal of Instrumentation, 2014, 9(05): C05018.

DOI：10.1088/1748-0221/9/05/C05018

• Pixelated detectors and associated VLSI electronics
• Particle tracking detectors (Solid-state detectors)
• Front-end electronics for detector readout
• VLSI circuits

With the aim of developing fast and granular Monolithic Active Pixels Sensors (MAPS) as new charged particle tracking detectors for high energy physics experiments, a new rolling shutter binary pixel architecture concept (RSBPix) with in-pixel correlated double sampling, amplification and discrimination is presented. The discriminator features auto-zeroing in order to compensate process-related transistor mismatches. In order to validate the pixel, a first monolithic CMOS sensor prototype, including a pixel array of 96 x 64 pixels, has been designed and fabricated in the Tower-Jazz 0.18 mu m CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) process. Results of laboratory tests are presented.

• 出版日期2014-5
• 单位中国地震局