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A Study on the Design of a ROIC for Uncooled Bolometer Thermal Image Sensor using Reference Resistor Compensation

기준저항 보상회로를 이용한 비냉각형 볼로미터 검출회로의 설계에 관한 연구

  • Published : 2009.02.01
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Abstract

As infrared light radiates, the CMOS Readout IC (ROIC) for the microbolometer typed infrared sensor detects voltage or current which is caused by the variation of resistance in the bolometer sensor. A serious problem we may have in designing the ROIC is the value of bolometer and reference resistors will be changed due to process variation. Since each pixel does not have the same value of resistance, fixed pattern noise problems happen during the sensor operations. In this paper, we propose a novel technique to compensate the fluctuation of reference resistance with taking account of process variation. By using a comparator and a cross coupled latch, we will make the value of reference resistor same as the bolometer's.

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