We developed a multiband imaging CMOS image sensor (CIS) with a multi-storied photodiode structure, which comprises two photodiode (PD) arrays that capture two different images, visible red, green, and blue (RGB) and near infrared (NIR) images at the...
This paper reports a CMOS MEMS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor micro electromechanical system) piezoresistive humidity sensor fabricated by a surface micromachining process. Both pre-CMOS and post-CMOS technologies were used to fabricate the...
This paper reports on the fabrication and characterization of a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor-Microelectromechanical System (CMOS-MEMS) device with embedded microheater operated at relatively elevated temperatures (40 °C to 80 °C) for the p...
A 2 µW power dissipation, voltage-output, humidity sensor accurate to 5% relative humidity was developed using the LFoundry 0.15 µm CMOS technology without post-processing. The sensor consists of a woven lateral array of electrodes implemented in CMO...
This paper presents a low-cost low-power CMOS humidity sensor for passive RFID sensing applications. The humidity sensing element is implemented in standard CMOS technology without any further post-processing, which results in low fabrication costs....
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible z-axis magnetic field sensor incorporating an additional collector is proposed to enhance magnetic sensing performance. The sensor consists of four identical magnetic sensing elements arrang...
In this research, a new application of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) for a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-MEMS infrared (IR) sensor and emitter is proposed. Thorough investigations of IR properties including absorption and emission wer...
A 1.1 µW power dissipation, voltage-output humidity sensor with 10% relative humidity accuracy was developed in the LFoundry 0.15 µm CMOS technology without post-processing. The sensor consists of a woven lateral array of electrodes implemented in CM...
Microchannel plate gated framing camera is commonly used in inertial confinement fusion diagnostics. However, it is a vacuum electronic device with bulkiness and non-single-line-of-sight imaging. To reduce the size of the camera and achieve a single...
An SOI CMOS multi-sensor MEMS chip, which can simultaneously measure temperature, pressure and flow rate, has been reported. The multi-sensor chip has been designed keeping in view the requirements of researchers interested in experimental fluid dyna...
The complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process is the main stream to fabricate integrated circuits (ICs) in the semiconductor industry. Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), when combined with CMOS electronics to form the CMOS MEMS proce...
A capacitive coupling structure is developed to improve the performances of a capacitive complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microelectromechanical system (MEMS) humidity sensor. The humidity sensor was fabricated by a post-CMOS process. S...
This paper presents the design of an integrated temperature sensor. The sensor was manufactured using the 3 µm CMOS technology. The proportional to absolute temperature sensor output signal was produced by two MOS transistors with biasing and b...
This paper analyzes and compensates for process and temperature dependency among a (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) CMOS image sensor (CIS) array. Both the analysis and compensation are supported with experimental results on the CIS’s...
This paper describes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) based temperature sensor. The VCOs are composed of complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) thyristor with the advantage of low power consumption. The period of the VCO is t...
The MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) Alliance provides a security framework for in-vehicle network connections between sensors and processing electronic control units (ECUs). One approach within this framework is data integrity verification...
In this work, we present a novel thermal acoustic gas sensor, fabricated using a CMOS microhotplate and MEMS microphone. The sensing mechanism is based on the detection of changes in the thermal acoustic conversion efficiency which is dependent on th...
A lateral overflow integration capacitor (LOFIC) complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor can realize high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging with combination of a low-conversion-gain (LCG) signal for large maximum signal electrons and a...
This paper introduces an innovative method for the analysis of alcohol–water droplets on a CMOS capacitive sensor, leveraging the controlled thermal behavior of the droplets. Using this sensing method, the capacitive sensor measures the total t...
This paper presents a novel monolithic pressure sensor tag for passive wireless applications. The proposed pressure sensor tag is based on an ultra-high frequency RFID system. The pressure sensor element is implemented in the 0.18 µm CMOS process and...
The refractive index (RI), an important optical property of a material, is measured by commercial refractometers in the food, agricultural, chemical, and manufacturing industries. Most of these refractometers must be equipped with a prism for light d...
This paper presents recent results on CMOS integrated circuits for automotive radar sensor applications in the 77 GHz frequency band. It is well demonstrated that nano-scale CMOS technologies are the best solution for the implementation of low-cost a...
This paper presents a CMOS temperature sensor based on the thermal dependencies of the leakage currents targeting the 65 nm node. To compensate for the effect of process fluctuations, the proposed sensor realizes the ratio of two measures of the time...
Silicon-based Hall application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips have become very successful, making them ideal for flexible electronic and sensor devices. In this study, we designed, simulated, and tested flexible hybrid integration angle sen...
This paper reports a 3-axis fully integrated differential capacitive tactile sensor surface-mountable on a bus line. The sensor integrates a flip-bonded complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) with capacitive sensing circuits on a low temperat...
In this study, a 40 × 48 pixel global shutter complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor with an adjustable shutter time as low as 75 ps was implemented using a 0.5-μm mixed-signal CMOS process. The implementation consisted of a cont...
A conventional microchannel plate framing camera is typically utilized for inertial confinement fusion diagnosis. However, as a vacuum electronic device, it has inherent limitations, such as a complex structure and the inability to achieve single-lin...
Integrated CMOS Hall sensors have been widely used to measure magnetic fields. However, they are difficult to work with in a low magnetic field environment due to their low sensitivity and large offset. This paper describes a highly sensitive digital...
Several CMOS imager sensors were proposed to obtain high dynamic range imager (>100 dB). However, as drawback these imagers implement a large number of transistors per pixel resulting in a low fill factor, high power consumption and high complexit...
In this study, we fabricated a wireless micro FET (field effect transistor) pressure sensor based on the commercial CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) process and a post-process. The wireless micro pressure sensor is composed of a FET pre...
This paper presents a CMOS image sensor (CIS) with built-in lane detection computing circuits for automotive applications. We propose on-CIS processing with an edge detection mask used in the readout circuit of the conventional CIS structure for high...
This paper presents a novel technique for dark current compensation of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) by using in-pixel temperature sensors (IPTSs) over a temperature range from −40 °C to 90 °C. The IPTS makes use of the 4T pixel as a temper...
This paper presents a single-bit CMOS image sensor (CIS) that uses a data processing technique with an edge detection block for simple iris segmentation. In order to recognize the iris image, the image sensor conventionally captures high-resolution i...
Magnetic field sensors are becoming an essential part of everyday life due to the improvements in their sensitivities and resolutions, while at the same time they have become compact, smaller in size and economical. In the work presented herein a Lor...
Various organisms, such as dogs and moths, can locate their prey and mates by sensing their smells. Following this manner, if an engineering device with the capability to detect a smell or gas source is realized, it can have a wide range of potential...
In this work, we present a novel pH sensor using efficient laterally coupled structure enabled by Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Fin Field-Effect Transistor (FinFET) processes. This new sensor features adjustable sensitivity, wide sen...
This paper presents a time domain CMOS temperature sensor with a simple current source. This sensor chip only occupies a small active die area of 0.026 mm2 because it adopts a simple current source consisting of an n-type poly resistor and a PMOS tra...
This work presents a numerical simulation of a Hartmann-Shack wavefront sensor (WFS) that assesses the impact of integrated electronic circuitry on the sensor performance, by evaluating a full detection chain encompassing wavefront sampling, photodet...
We use optical CMOS image sensors for spatially and time-resolved measurement of the emission currents of field emission cathodes. The measured signal depends, on the one hand, on the emission current that flows from the cathode surface through the v...
This paper presents an ultra-low embedded power temperature sensor for passive RFID tags. The temperature sensor converts the temperature variation to a PTAT current, which is then transformed into a temperature-controlled frequency. A phase locked l...
With their significant features, the applications of complementary metal-oxidesemiconductor (CMOS) image sensors covers a very extensive range, from industrialautomation to traffic applications such as aiming systems, blind guidance, active/passivera...
Visible light positioning (VLP) using complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors is a cost-effective solution to the increasing demand for an indoor positioning system. However, in most of the existing VLP systems with a...
This paper presents the design of a current-mode CMOS self-amplified imager operating in dark conditions, for thermal imaging, which provides an innovative solution for precision thermal contact mapping. Possible applications of this imager range fro...
An implantable multi-ion image sensor equipped with magnesium ion (Mg2+)-and calcium ion (Ca2+)-sensitive membranes was fabricated for the selective measurement of extracellular Mg2+ in the brain, and the sensor performance was evaluated. This sensor...
In this paper, an accumulation technique suitable for digital domain CMOS time delay integration (TDI) image sensors is proposed to reduce power consumption without degrading the rate of imaging. In terms of the slight variations of quantization code...
Electrochemical sensing arrays enable the spatial study of dopamine levels throughout brain slices, the diffusion of electroactive molecules, as well as neurotransmitter secretion from single cells. The integration of complementary metal-oxide semico...
This paper presents a CMOS depth image sensor with offset pixel aperture (OPA) using a back-side illumination structure to improve disparity. The OPA method is an efficient way to obtain depth information with a single image sensor without additional...
Recent activity in photon counting CMOS image sensors (CIS) has been directed to reduction of read noise. Many approaches and methods have been reported. This work is focused on providing sub 1 e− read noise by design and operation of the binary and...
In order to improve image recognition technologies in an IoT environment, we propose a data reduction scheme for a feature-extractable CMOS image sensor and present simulation results for object recognition using feature data. We evaluated the accura...
The article presents novel hardware solutions for new intelligent sensors that can be used in wireless sensor networks (WSN). A substantial reduction of the amount of data sent by the sensor to the base station in the WSN may extend the possible sens...
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