• DOI:10.1117/12.148585
Corpus ID: 10556755

Active pixel sensors: are CCDs dinosaurs?

@inproceedings{Fossum1993ActivePS,
  title={Active pixel sensors: are CCDs dinosaurs?},
  author={E. Fossum},
  booktitle={Electronic Imaging},
  year={1993}
}

• E. Fossum
• Published in Electronic Imaging 1993
• Engineering, Physics

Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) are presently the technology of choice for most imaging applications. In the 23 years since their invention in 1970, they have evolved to a sophisticated level of performance. However, as with all technologies, we can be certain that they will be supplanted someday. In this paper, the Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology is explored as a possible successor to the CCD. An active pixel is defined as a detector array technology that has at least one active transistor… Expand