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ERIC R. FOSSUM Some Favorite Publications |
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Yale 1979-1984 |
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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 |
17 |
From my Ph.D. dissertation
work. |
Columbia 1984-1990 |
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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 |
43 |
More details on low energy
ion beam oxidation from Todorov dissertation |
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E.R. Fossum |
Architectures
for Focal-Plane Image Processing,
Opt. |
1989 |
140 |
Sets stage for later CMOS image sensor
work incl. column-parallel architecture |
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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 |
26 |
Good summary of our work in
this area |
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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 |
23 |
For those who said it could not be
done. Enables non-local interconnects |
NASA/JPL 1990-1996 |
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E.R. Fossum |
Active
Pixel Sensors -- Are CCDs Dinosaurs?, in CCD's and Optical Sensors |
1993 |
875 |
First real paper addressing the future
of active pixel sensors. |
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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 |
203 |
Mostly a review paper with excellent
analysis by Pain. |
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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 |
92 |
Hard to believe but at the time most
people thought integrating an ADC with the image sensor was a bad idea. Visible & IR |
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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, |
1995 |
45 |
Emphasizes the low power nature of CMOS
image sensors. |
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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, |
1995 |
77 |
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. |
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Z. Zhou B. Pain
and E.R. Fossum |
CMOS
active pixel sensor with on-chip successive approximation analog-to-digital
converters, IEEE Trans.
Electron Devices, vol. 44(10) pp. 1759-1763, 1997 |
1997 |
137 |
First CMOS image sensor
with on-chip successive approximation ADC |
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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 |
1945 |
Based on my |
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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 |
676 |
Chip details including CDS and FPN
noise cancelling circuits. |
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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 |
99 |
Shows the power of on-chip
column-parallel analog signal processing. |
Photobit 1996-2001 |
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E.R. Fossum |
Digital
Camera System-On-A-Chip,
IEEE Micro, vol. 18(3), pp 8-15, May/June (1998). |
1998 |
117 |
Good introductory article |
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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, |
1999 |
128 |
First demonstration of very high speed
readout potential of CMOS active pixel image sensors. 500 Mpixels/sec |
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Y.
Wang, S. Barna, |
A
high dynamic range CMOS APS image sensor, Proc. 2001 IEEE Workshop on CCDs and
Advanced Image Sensors, |
2001 |
24 |
Very
nice work from Wang’s dissertation research.
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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 |
80 |
Demonstrates the very low power
dissipation potential of the CMOS image sensor. From Cho’s dissertation research. |
1st Retirement 2003-2005 |
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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 |
53 |
New noise model for this transfer
process experimentally measured and confirmed by MIT Lincoln Labs. |
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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, |
2005 |
104 |
First paper on jot-based image sensors. |
Siimpel 2005-2007 |
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R. Gutierrez, T.Tang, R. Calvet
and E.R. Fossum |
MEMS
Digital Camera, in Digital Photography |
2007 |
13 |
Documents the MEMS
technology at Siimpel while I was CEO. |
Samsung 2008-2012 |
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W-J. Kim, Y. Wang, I. Ovsiannikov, S-H.
Lee, Y.D. Park, C-H. Chung, and E.R. Fossum |
A
1.5Mpixel RGBZ Image Sensor for Simultaneous Color and Range Image Capture, in Proceedings
of the 2012 Int. Solid-State Circuits Conference pp. 391-392, San Francisco,
CA, USA, February 22, 2012. |
2012 |
70 |
First integrated ranging
and color image sensor with Samsung team. |
Dartmouth 2010- |
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E.R. Fossum |
Modeling
the performance of single-bit and multi-bit quanta image sensors, IEEE J. Electron
Devices Society, vol.1(9) pp. 166-174 September 2013. |
2013 |
86 |
I worked hard on this
paper. All seems so easy now. |
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E.R. Fossum and D.B. Hondongwa |
A
review of the pinned photodiode for CCD and CMOS image sensors, IEEE J. Electron
Devices Society, vol. 2(3) pp. 33-43 May 2014. |
2014 |
372 |
This review paper has
served the community well. |
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J. Ma and E.R. Fossum |
Quanta image sensor jot with sub 0.3e- r.m.s. read noise and photon counting capability, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 36(9), pp. 926-928, September 2015. |
2015 |
74 |
First demonstration of
photon counting in CMOS image sensor |
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E.R. Fossum, J. Ma, S.
Masoodian, L. Anzagira, R. Zizza |
The
quanta image sensor: every photon counts, MDPI Sensors, vol.
16, no. 8, 1260; August 2016. (Special Issue on Photon-Counting Image
Sensors) https://doi.org/10.3390/s16081260 |
2016 |
72 |
Review on Quanta Image
Sensor |
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J. Ma, S. Masoodian, D.A.
Starkey, E.R. Fossum |
Photon-number-resolving
megapixel image sensor at room temperature without avalanche gain, OSA Optica, vol.
4, no. 12, pp.1474-1481, December 2017.
https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.4.001474 |
2017 |
82 |
First megapixel QIS |
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E.R. Fossum |
Analog
read noise and quantizer threshold estimation from quanta image sensor bit
density, IEEEJ. Electron Devices Society, vol.
10, pp. 269-274, published March 24, 2022. https://doi.org/ 10.1109/JEDS.2022.3157785 |
2022 |
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Will this be my last solo
paper? |
*Citation count as of 3/26/2022 from Google
Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=LHYtimkAAAAJ