Noise Reduction Techniques and Scaling Effects towards Photon Counting CMOS Image Sensors
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Assim Boukhayma 1,*, Arnaud Peizerat 2 and Christian Enz 1 1 Integrated Circuits Lab (ICLAB), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Microcity, Rue de la Maladière 71, Neuchâtel 2000, Switzerland; [email protected] 2 Laboratoire de l’ Électronique et Technologies de l’ Information (Leti), Commissariat a l’ Énergie Atomique (CEA), Rue des Marthyrs 17, Grenoble 38000, France; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected]; Tel.: +4-121-695-4397
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دوره 16 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016