ERIC R. FOSSUM

Some Favorite Publications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Authors

Paper Title and Publication

Year

Cited*

Comments

Yale

1979-1984

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

E.R. Fossum

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

1989

140

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

875

First real paper addressing the future of 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

203

Mostly a review paper with excellent analysis by Pain.

 

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

 

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

45

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

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.

 

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

 

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 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

676

Chip details including CDS and FPN noise cancelling circuits.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

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

128

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

500 Mpixels/sec

 

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

24

Very nice work from Wang’s dissertation research. 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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

104

First paper on jot-based image sensors.

Siimpel 2005-2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

13

Documents the MEMS technology at Siimpel while I was CEO.

Samsung

2008-2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

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-

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

1

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