ERIC R. FOSSUM

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E.R. Fossum

CMOS image sensors - electronic camera on a chip,  IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, Special Issue on Solid-State Image Sensors, October 1997 vol. 44(10) pp. 1689-1698 (1997).

1997

908

Based on my 1995 IEDM Plenary talk.

 

S.K. Mendis, S.E. Kemeny, R.C. Gee, B. Pain, Q. Kim, and E.R. Fossum

CMOS active pixel image sensors for highly integrated imaging systems, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 32(2) pp. 187-197 (1997).

1997

389

Chip details including CDS and FPN noise cancelling circuits.

E.R. Fossum

Active Pixel Sensors -- Are CCDs Dinosaurs?, in CCD's and Optical Sensors III, Proc. SPIE vol. 1900, pp. 2-14, (1993).

1993

358

First real paper addressing active pixel sensors.

 

E.R. Fossum and B. Pain

Infrared readout electronics for space science sensors: state of the art and future directions,  in Infrared Technology XIX, Proc. SPIE vol. 2020 pp. 262-285 (1993).

1993

85

Mostly a review paper with excellent analysis by Pain.

E.R. Fossum

Architectures for Focal-Plane Image Processing, Opt. Eng., vol. 28 (8),  865-871 (1989).

1989

77

Sets stage for later CMOS image sensor work incl. column-parallel architecture

A. Krymski, D. Van Blerkom, A. Andersson, N. Bock, B. Mansoorian, and E.R. Fossum

A high speed, 500 frames/s, 1024x1024 CMOS active pixel sensor,  1999 Symposium on VLSI Circuits Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 137-138, Kyoto, Japan, June 1999.

1999

77

First demonstration of very high speed readout potential of CMOS active pixel image sensors.

500 Mpixels/sec

E.R. Fossum

Digital Camera System-On-A-Chip, IEEE Micro, vol. 18(3), pp 8-15, May/June (1998).

1998

69

Good introductory article

S.E. Kemeny, R. Panicacci, B.Pain, L. Matthies, and E.R. Fossum

Multiresolution image sensor,  IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 7(4), pp. 575-583 (1997).

1997

63

Shows the power of column-parallel analog signal processing.

B. Pain and E.R. Fossum

Approaches and analysis for on-focal-plane analog-to-digital conversion, in Infrared Readout Electronics II, Proc. SPIE vol. 2226, pp. 208-218 (1994).

1994

53

Hard to believe but at the time most people thought integrating an ADC with the image sensor was a bad idea.  Visible & IR

K-B Cho, A. Krymski, E.R. Fossum

A 1.5V 550 uW 176x144 autonomous CMOS active pixel image sensor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 50(1), pp. 96-105 (2003).

2003

38

Demonstrates the very low power dissipation potential of the CMOS image sensor.  From Cho’s dissertation research.

S.S. Todorov and E.R. Fossum

Oxidation of Silicon by a Low Energy Ion Beam: Model and Experiment, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 52 (1), pp. 48-50 (1988).

1988

29

More details on low energy ion beam oxidation from Todorov  dissertation

E.R. Fossum,

Low power camera-on-a-chip using CMOS active pixel sensor technology, (invited) Proc. 1995 IEEE Symposium on Low Power Electronics, pp. 74-77, San Jose, CA, Oct. 9-10, 1995.

1995

28

Emphasizes the low power nature of CMOS image sensors.

P.P.K. Lee, R.C. Gee, R.M. Guidash, T-H. Lee, and E.R. Fossum

An Active Pixel Sensor Fabricated Using CMOS/CCD Process Technology, in Program of 1995 IEEE Workshop on CCDs and Advanced Image Sensors, Dana Point, CA, April 20-22 1995.

1995

17

First report of pinned photodiode with CMOS APS.  Joint work between JPL and Kodak.  Idea came from my and Tom Lee’s collaborative discussion and strangely patented by just Kodak.

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

A high dynamic range CMOS APS image sensor, Proc. 2001 IEEE Workshop on CCDs and Advanced Image Sensors, Lake Tahoe, NV, June 2001.

2001

14

Very nice work from Wang’s dissertation research. 

E.R. Fossum, J.-I. Song, and D.V. Rossi

Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Charge-Coupled Devices (2DEG-CCDs), IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-38(5), pp. 1182-1192 (1991).

1991

14

Good summary of our work in this area

E.R. Fossum

Wire Transfer of Charge Packets Using a CCD-BBD Structure for Charge-Domain Signal Processing, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-38(2) pp.291-298 (1991).

1991

11

For those who said it could not be done.  Enables non-local interconnects

E. R. Fossum

Charge transfer noise and lag in CMOS active pixel sensors, Proc. of 2003 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, Schloss Elmau, Bavaria, Germany May 2003.  Longer unpublished version

2003

10

New noise model for this transfer process recently experiementall measured and confirmed by MIT Lincoln Labs.

E.R. Fossum and R.C. Barker

 Measurement of Hole Leakage and Impact Ionization Currents in Metal/Tunnel Oxide/Semiconductor Junctions, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-3l, no. 9, pp. 1168-1174 (1984).

1984

8

From my Ph.D. dissertation

E.R. Fossum,

What to do with Sub-Diffraction-Limit (SDL) Pixels? – A Proposal for a Gigapixel Digital Film Sensor (DFS), Proc. Of the 2005 IEEE Workshop on Charge-Coupled Devices and Advanced Image Sensors, Karuizawa, Japan, June 2005.

2005

7

First paper on jot-based image sensors.

R. Gutierrez, T.Tang, R. Calvet and E.R. Fossum

MEMS Digital Camera, in Digital Photography III, San Jose, CA, USA, Proceedings of the SPIE vol. 6502, paper 16.   January 28-29, 2007.

2007

5

Documents the MEMS technology at Siimpel while I was CEO.

E.R. Fossum

The Quanta Image Sensor (QIS): Concepts and Challenges in Proc. 2011 Opt. Soc. Am. Topical Meeting on Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging, Toronto, Canada July 10-14, 2011.

 

2011

0

More on jot based image sensors

*Citation count as of 1/2/2012