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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2008.12.7.1235

A Design of Digital CMOS X-ray Image Sensor with $32{\times}32$ Pixel Array Using Photon Counting Type  

Sung, Kwan-Young (창원대학교 신소재.나노공학)
Kim, Tae-Ho (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Hwang, Yoon-Geum (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Jeon, Sung-Chae (한국전기연구원)
Jin, Seung-Oh (한국전기연구원)
Huh, Young (한국전기연구원)
Ha, Pan-Bong (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Park, Mu-Hun (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Kim, Young-Hee (창원대학교 전자공학과)
Abstract
In this paper, x-ray image sensor of photon counting type having a $32{\times}32$ pixel array is designed with $0.18{\mu}m$ triple-well CMOS process. Each pixel of the designed image sensor has an area of loot $100{\times}100\;{\mu}m2$ and is composed of about 400 transistors. It has an open pad of an area of $50{\times}50{\mu}m2$ of CSA(charge Sensitive Amplifier) with x-ray detector through a bump bonding. To reduce layout size, self-biased folded cascode CMOS OP amp is used instead of folded cascode OP amp with voltage bias circuit at each single-pixel CSA, and 15-bit LFSR(Linear Feedback Shift Register) counter clock generator is proposed to remove short pulse which occurs from the clock before and after it enters the counting mode. And it is designed that sensor data can be read out of the sensor column by column using a column address decoder to reduce the maximum current of the CMOS x-ray image sensor in the readout mode.
Keywords
X-ray image sensor; photon counting; charge sensitive amplifier; self-biased Folded Cascode CMOS OP Amp; LFSR counter; address decoding;
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