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A buffer direct injection and direct injection readout circuit with mode selection design for infrared focal plane arrays

Sun et al., 2014

Document ID
14127444090153724449
Author
Sun T
Lu Y
Kang L
Shieh H
Publication year
Publication venue
Infrared Physics & Technology

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This paper proposes a solution to the excessive area penalty associated with traditional buffer direct injection (BDI) for single pixel. The proposed solution reduces the area and power consumption of BDI to combine the direct injection (DI) within a shared architecture …
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