Study of the Near-IR Sensitivity of a CMOS Image Sensor

Near-infrared sensitive CMOS image sensors are becoming more and more important. Especially in applications where the characterization of specific parameters is the main target and no immediately shooting beautiful images: e.g. distance measurements, eye tracking, etc. But silicon-based CMOS image sensors do have a relatively weak near-IR response, have a large temperature depending near-IR response and very often the near-IR response is non-linear. The proposed project will focus on the characterization of the near-IR response of existing cameras. A manual set-up to perform characterization is available, but can this be automated? And how can the set-up being applied to do temperature depending measurements. The proposed project is very much hands-on.

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prof.dr. Albert Theuwissen

Electronic Instrumentation Group

Department of Microelectronics

Last modified: 2021-02-11