Research on pixel MTF of backside illumination CMOS image sensor

Gengyun Wang; Lili Xie; Hongbo Bu

doi:10.1117/12.2604851

24 November 2021 Research on pixel MTF of backside illumination CMOS image sensor

Gengyun Wang, Lili Xie, Hongbo Bu

Proceedings Volume 12062, AOPC 2021: Optoelectronics and Nanophotonics; 120620C (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2604851
Event: Applied Optics and Photonics China 2021, 2021, Beijing, China

Abstract

The pixel array of BSI CMOS image sensor is a kind of photoelectric device to obtain 2D image information. The image quality was evaluated by the modulation transfer function (MTF) of BSI CMOS image sensor pixel at Nyquist frequency. With the decreasing pixel size of BSI CMOS image sensor and the increasing spatial resolution, it is more and more difficult to improve the MTF at Nyquist frequency. According to the theoretical analysis, MTF is composed of aperture MTF and diffusion MTF, the comprehensive MTF function is usually obtained by the multiplication relationship between the two MTFs in the frequency domain. Aperture MTF and diffusion MTF have different influence factors and calculation functions, but they are related to the size of the opening. The opening here represents the sensitivity aperture and photo-sense region respectively. The smaller the opening of the detector pixel, the larger MTF will be. In this paper, the theoretical mechanism of MTF function is analyzed in detail, and the calculation results of MTF of BSI CMOS image sensor pixel under 8 typical optical wavelengths in 300nm-1000nm spectral band are listed.

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Gengyun Wang, Lili Xie, and Hongbo Bu "Research on pixel MTF of backside illumination CMOS image sensor", Proc. SPIE 12062, AOPC 2021: Optoelectronics and Nanophotonics, 120620C (24 November 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2604851

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