Print Email Facebook Twitter Investigating transfer gate potential barrier by feed-forward effect measurement Title Investigating transfer gate potential barrier by feed-forward effect measurement Author Xu, Y. Ge, X. Theuwissen, A.J.P. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Microelectronics Date 2015-12-31 Abstract In a 4T pixel, the transfer gate (TG) “OFF” surface potential is one of the important parameters, which determines the pinned photodiode (PPD) full well capacity. The feed-forward effect measurement is a powerful tool to characterize the relationship of the PPD injection potential and the feed-forward electrons. In this paper, a parameter Vb is introduced to characterize the TG “OFF” surface potential and Vb can be extracted from the feed-forward measurement result. Using this characterization method, the pixel design and application parameters will be investigated. To better understand and control the full well capacity of the PPD, these effects and parameters will be investigated in this paper. Two test chips, using different technologies, were implemented. Further, the different mechanisms of the feedforward effect will be discussed. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a48aa8b6-a48c-4cd7-a183-06e159cfdd10 Publisher International Image Sensor Society Source Proceedings of the 2015 International Image Sensor Workshop, Vaals (The Netherlands), 8-11 June, 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c)2015 The Authors Files PDF 329318.pdf 532.33 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a48aa8b6-a48c-4cd7-a183-06e159cfdd10/datastream/OBJ/view