PhD defense : Burst CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Analog to Digital Conversion

PhD defense : Rémi BONNARD

Team : SMH

Title : Burst CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Analog to Digital Conversion

Abstract : You are all welcome to attend to my PhD defense which is entitled: “Burst CMOS Image Sensor with On-Chip Analog to Digital Conversion”. It will take place on 10 February 2016 in the "Marguerite Perey" amphitheater, Build. 01, 2nd floor, CNRS Cronenbourg campus, 23 Loes st., Strasbourg. This presentation will start by a review of the burst imaging and the 3D integration technologies. Two architectures of burst image sensors will then be presented. Their performances will be assessed and compared. The first architecture stores the images in analog form while the other stores the images in digital form. This analysis will highlight a high power consumption of the digital storage architecture. Then, a thermal study will be presented which enables identifying the operating limits of the sensor. The rest of this presentation will focus on the design of pixels for the digital storage architecture. A test chip will be presented as well as its electrical and optical performances. Finally, I will conclude by a presentation of a prototype of burst image sensor integrated with a 3D technology.

This thesis was supervised by Wilfried Uhring (professor at the University of Strasbourg and member of the SMH team).

The presentation will take place on Wednesday 10th february 2016 at 1.30pm at the Marguerite Perey room in the CNRS campus. This thesis will be held in english.