ERIC R. FOSSUM

  PUBLICATIONS  LIST

(as of  2/24/2008)

 

(Some publications available as PDF files via hyperlinks)

 

Archival Journal Publications

 

1.           E.R. Fossum and R.C. Barker, Charge Packet Initiated Switching of Metal/Tunnel Oxide/Semiconductor Junctions, IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol.  EDL-5, pp. 112-114 (1984).

 

2.           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).

 

3.           E.R. Fossum and R.C. Barker, A Linear and Compact Charge Packet Differencer/ Replicator, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-31, no. 12, pp. 1784-1789 (1984).

 

4.           P.R. Prucnal, E.R. Fossum, and R.M. Osgood, Integrated Fiber Optic Coupler for Very Large Scale Integration Interconnects,  Optics Lett., vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 109-111 (1986).

 

5.           S.S. Todorov, S.L. Shillinger, and E.R. Fossum, Low Energy Ion Beam Oxidation of Silicon, IEEE Electron Dev. Lett., vol. EDL-7, pp. 468-470 (1986).

 

6.           S.S. Todorov, C.F. Yu, and E.R. Fossum, Direct Formation of Dielectric Thin Films on Silicon by Low Energy Ion Beam Bombardment,  Vacuum, 36 (11/12), pp.  929-932 (1986). 

 

7.           R.W. Ade, E.E. Harstead, A.H. Amirfazli, T. Cacouris, E.R. Fossum, P.R. Prucnal, and R.M. Osgood, Silicon Photodetector Structure for Direct Coupling of Optical Fibers to Integrated Circuits,  IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol.  ED-34, pp. 1283-1289 (1987).

 

8.           C.F. Yu, S.S. Todorov, and E.R. Fossum, Characterization of Ultra-Thin SiO2 Films Formed by Direct Low Energy Ion Beam Oxidation, J. Vac.  Sci.  and Technol. A5(4), pp. 1569-1571 (1987).

 

9.           E.R. Fossum, Charge-Coupled Computing for Focal Plane Image Preprocessing, Opt. Eng., 26 (9), pp. 916-922 (1987).

 

10.        R.W. Ade and E.R. Fossum, Limitations of Orientation Dependent Microstructure Etching in Silicon,  J.  Electrochem.  Soc., vol. 134 (12),  pp. 3192-3194 (1987).

 

11.        D.V. Rossi, E.R. Fossum, G.D. Pettit, P.D. Kirchner, and J.M. Woodall, Reduced Reverse Bias Current in Al-GaAs and In0.75 Ga0.25 As-GaAs Junctions Containing an Interfacial Arsenic Layer,  J. Vac. Sci. and Technol. vol.  B5 (4), pp. 982-984 (1987).

 

12.        J.I. Song and E.R. Fossum, Inhibition of Charge Packet Broadening in GaAs Charge-Coupled Devices, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 51 (19), pp. 1539-154l1(1987).

 

13.        A.Warren, J.M. Woodall, E.R. Fossum, G.D. Pettit, P.D. Kirchner and D.T. McInturff, Masked, Anisotropic Thermal Etching and Regrowth for In-Situ Patterning of Compound Semiconductors, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 51 (22), pp. 1818-1820 (1987).

 

14.        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). 

 

15.        S.S. Todorov and E.R. Fossum, Growth Mechanism of Thin Oxide Films Under Low Energy Oxygen Ion Bombardment, J. Vac. Sci.  and Technol.  B. B, vol. 6 (1), pp. 466-469 (1988).

 

16.        S.S. Todorov and E.R. Fossum, Sputtering of Silicon Dioxide Near Threshold, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 52 (5), pp. 365-367 (1988).

 

17.        R.W. Ade, E.R. Fossum, M.A. Tischler, Fabrication of Thin Epitaxial GaAs/AlGaAs Diaphragms by Selective Dry Etching, J. Vac.  Sci. and Technol., vol. B6 (5), pp. 1592-1594 (1988).

 

18.        E.R. Fossum, Charge-Domain Analog Signal Processing for Detector Arrays, Nuclear Instr. and Methods, vol. A275, pp. 530-535 (1989).

 

19.        E.R. Fossum, Novel Trench-Defined MISIM CCD Structure for X-Ray Imaging and Other Applications, IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 10 (5), pp. 177-179 (1989).

 

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

 

21.        J.I. Song and E.R. Fossum, Characterization of Evaporated Cr-SiO Cermet Films for Resistive-Gate CCD Applications,  IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 36 (9), 1575-1579 (1989).

 

22.        R.E. Colbeth, J.-I. Song, D.V. Rossi and E.R. Fossum, A Recessed Gap, Capacitive Gate GaAs CCD,  IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 10 (12), 525-527 (1989).

 

23.        R.W. Ade, E.R. Fossum and M.A. Tischler, Performance of Vertically Coupled Backside Fiber-Optic Interconnects to GaAs, (abstract)  IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 36 (11), 2629 (1989).

 

24.        R.E. Colbeth and E.R. Fossum, A 1 GHz Charge Packet Replicator/Subtractor Circuit for GaAs CCD Signal Processing, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 25(4), pp. 1016-1019 (1990).

 

25.        D.V. Rossi, E.R. Fossum, P.D. Kirchner and J.M. Woodall, Transport Properties and Applications of Unstrained InGaAs/AlGaAs Heterojunctions,  J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, vol. 8(4), pp. 779-782 (1990).

 

26.        B. Pain and E.R. Fossum, Analog Dynamic Random Access Memory (ADRAM) Unit Cell Implemented in Charge Domain,  IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 38(1) pp. 178-179 (1991).

 

27.        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.91-298 (1991).

 

28.        E.R. Fossum, S.E. Kemeny, R.A. Bredthauer and M.A. LaShell, Digitally Programmable gain control circuit for charge-domain signal processing, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 26(4) pp. 683-686 (1991).

 

29.        J.-I. Song, D.V. Rossi, S-H Xin, W.I. Wang and E.R. Fossum, A Resistive-Gate  AlGaAs/GaAs 2DEG CCD with High Transfer Efficiency at 1 GHz, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-38, pp. 930-932 (1991).

 

30.        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).

 

31.        D.V. Rossi, J.-I. Song, E.R. Fossum, P.D. Kirchner, G.D. Pettit, and J.M. Woodall, A Resistive-Gate In0.53 Ga0.47As/InP Heterostructure CCD,  IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. EDL-12(12)  pp. 688-690 (1991).

 

32.        S.E. Kemeny, H. Torbey, H. Meadows, R. Bredthauer, M. LaShell, and E.R. Fossum, CCD Focal-Plane Image Reorganization Processors for Lossless Image Compression, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 27(3), pp. 398-405 (1992).

 

33.        T.J. Cunningham, E.R. Fossum, and S.M. Baier, An analysis of the temperature dependence of the gate current in complementary heterojunction field-effect transistors, IEEE Electron Device Lett., vol. 13(12) pp. 645-647 (1992).

 

34.        W.R. Cook, A.C. Cummings, R.A. Mewaldt, J.J. Rosenberg, T.J. Cunningham, M. Mazed, M.J. Holtzman, and E.R. Fossum, Development of an interdigitated pixel PIN detector for energetic particle spectroscopy in space, Remote Sensing Reviews, vol. 8, pp. 245-253 (1993).

 

35.        S.Mendis, S.E. Kemeny and E.R. Fossum, CMOS active pixel image sensor, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 41(3), pp. 452-453 (1994).

 

36.        T.J. Cunningham, R.C. Gee, E.R. Fossum and S.M. Baier, Deep cryogenic noise and electrical characterization of the complementary heterojunction field-effect transistor (CHFET), IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 41(6), pp. 888-894 (1994).

 

37.        B. Pain and E.R. Fossum, A current memory cell with switch feedthrough reduction by error feedback, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 29(10), pp. 1288-1290 (1994).

 

38.        A.R. Johnston, D. Liu, S. Forouhar, G. Lutes, J. Maserjian and E.R. Fossum, Optical links for cryogenic focal-plane array readout, Optical Engineering, vol. 33(6), pp. 2013-2019 (1994).

 

39.        T.J. Cunningham and E.R. Fossum, GaAs JFETS intended for deep cryogenic VLWIR readout electronics, Journal de Physique IV, vol. 4(C6) pp. 147-152 (1994).

 

40.        J. Nakamura, S.E. Kemeny and E.R. Fossum, A CMOS active pixel image sensor with simple floating gate pixels, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. ED-42(9) pp. 1693-1694 (1995).

 

41.        B.P. Beecken and E.R. Fossum, Determination of the conversion gain and the accuracy of its measurement for detector elements and arrays, J. Opt. Soc. America, Vol. 35, No. 19, p. 3471- 3477 (1996)

 

42.        R.H Nixon, S.E. Kemeny, B. Pain, C.O. Staller and E.R. Fossum, 256x256 CMOS active pixel sensor camera-on-a-chip, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 31(12) pp. 2046-2050 (1996).

 

43.        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).

 

44.        O. Yadid-Pecht, B. Pain, C. Staller, C. Clark, and E.R. Fossum, CMOS active pixel sensor star tracker with regional electronic shutter, IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 32(2) pp. 285-288 (1997).

 

45.        G.A. Soli, H.B. Garrett, E.R. Fossum, CMOS charged particle spectrometers, IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, vol. 43(3) pt 2. Page: 1516-1520 (1996).

 

46.        O. Yadid-Pecht, C. Staller, and E.R. Fossum, Wide intrascene dynamic range CMOS APS using dual sampling, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 44(10) pp. 1721-1723 (1997).

 

47.        J. Nakamura, B. Pain, T. Nomoto, T. Nakamura, and E.R. Fossum, On-focal plane signal processing for current-mode active pixel sensors, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 44(10) pp. 1747-1758 (1997).

 

48.        Z. Zhou, B. Pain, and E.R. Fossum, Frame-transfer CMOS active pixel sensor with pixel binning for variable resolution readout, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 44(10) pp. 1764-1768 (1997).

 

49.        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).

 

50.        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).

 

51.        E.R. Fossum, CMOS active pixel image sensors,  Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, vol. 395(3) pp. 291-297 (1997).

 

52.        E.R.Fossum, Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Special Issue on Solid-State Image Sensors, vol. 44 (10) October 1997 .    See also Tributes to the Late Dr. Walter Kosonocky

 

53.        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).

 

54.        J. Fattaruso, E.R. Fossum, and T.H. Lee, Guest Editors, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits Special Issue on the 1997 ISSCC: Analog, Sensor and Communication Circuits, vol. 32(12) December 1997.

 

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

 

56.        S. Campbell and E.R. Fossum, Detector arrays for digital holographic storage,  Holographic Data Storage, pp.271-279, Hans Coufal, Demetri Psaltis, Glenn Sincerbox, editors, Springer-Verlag Optical Science Series (2000).

 

57.        Eid, E.-S., Spagnuolo, R., Chan, T. Y., Fossum, E. R., Tsai, R. H., Deily, J., Byers Jr., W. B.; Peden, J. C., Design and characterization of ionizing radiation-tolerant CMOS APS image sensors up to 30 Mrd (Si) total dose, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (ISSN 0018-9499), vol. 48, no. 6, Dec. 191, p. 1796-1806. December 2001

 

58.        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).

 

59.        A. Krymski, N. Bock, N. Tu, D. Van Blerkom, and E. R. Fossum, A high-speed, 240 frame/second, 4.1 megapixel image sensor, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 50(1), pp. 130-135 (2003).

 

60.        I. Takayanagi, J. Nakamura, Eric R. Fossum, K. Nagashima, T. Kunihiro and H. Yurimoto, Dark current reduction in stacked-type CMOS-APS for charged particle imaging, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 50(1), pp. 70-76 (2003).

 

61.        E.R. Fossum, Guest Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices Special Issue on Solid-State Image Sensors, vol. 50(1) January 2003.

 

62.        I. Takayanagi, M. Shirakawa, K. Mitani, M. Sugawara, S. Iversen, J. Moholt, J. Nakamura, amd E.R. Fossum, A 1.25-inch 60-frame/s 8.3M-pixel digital output CMOS image sensor, IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 40(11) pp. 2305-2314 November 2005.

 

Other Publications :

 

1.           E.R. Fossum, Charge-Coupled Analog Computing Elements and Their Application to Smart Image Sensors, Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, Department of Electrical Engineering  (1984).

 

2.           P.R. Prucnal, E.R. Fossum, and R.M. Osgood, Fiber Optic Coupler for VHSIC/VLSI Interconnects, Proc. SPIE, vol. 625, pp. 154-158 (1984).

 

3.           R.W. Ade, E.E. Harstead, T. Cacouris, E.R. Fossum, P.R.  Prucnal, and R.M. Osgood, Direct Connection of Optical Fibers to Integrated Circuits, Proc. 6th Int'l. Electronics Packaging Society Conference, pp. 351-359, (1986).

 

4.           S.S. Todorov and E.R. Fossum, Room Temperature Growth of Silicon Dioxide Using a Low Energy Ion Beam, Mat. Res.  Soc. Symp. Proc. vol. 75, pp. 349-354, (1986).

 

5.           R.W. Ade, A.E. Willner, E.R. Fossum and R.M. Osgood, GaAs Detector Structure for Vertically Coupled Fiber-Optic Interconnects, Proc. Conf. on Lasers and Electro-Optics, p. 104 (1987).

 

6.           D.V. Rossi, E.R. Fossum, G.D. Pettit, P.D. Kirchner, and J.M. Woodall, Reduced Leakage Current in Al-GaAs and In0.75 Ga0.25 As-GaAs Junctions Containing an Interfacial Arsenic Layer,  in Proceeding of the 1987 Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductor Interfaces, Salt Lake City, Utah, January 1987.

 

7.           E.R. Fossum, Photonic Interconnections: More Bandwidth, Less Power, Photonics Spectra, pp. 151-157, May 1987.