发明名称 |
CCd imagers |
摘要 |
In a CCD imager 1, charge is accumulated in pixels of an image area 2 representative of the intensity of incident radiation and is subsequently transferred to a store section 3 and then on a row by row basis to an output register 4 by applying suitable drive pulses to electrodes 7 and 8. Signal charge in the output register 4 is transferred to a multiplication register 5 by drive pulses applied to electrodes 9 and 10 to give charge transfer in the direction shown by the arrows. One or more drive pulses applied to the electrodes of the multiplication register 5 are of sufficiently large amplitude to produce high field regions in the register element to cause signal multiplication by impact ionisation. This gives a low noise amplification of the signal charge, the multiplied signal charge being detected at charge detection circuit 6. <IMAGE> |
申请公布号 |
GB2323471(B) |
申请公布日期 |
2002.04.17 |
申请号 |
GB19970005986 |
申请日期 |
1997.03.22 |
申请人 |
* EEV LIMITED;* MARCONI APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED |
发明人 |
DAVID JAMES * BURT;RAYMOND THOMAS * BELL |
分类号 |
H01L27/148;H04N5/335;H04N5/372;H04N5/376;(IPC1-7):H01L27/148 |
主分类号 |
H01L27/148 |
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