Hardening CMOS imagers: radhard-by-design or radhard-by-foundry

Bedabrata Pain; Bruce R. Hancock; Thomas J. Cunningham; Suresh Seshadri; Chao Sun; Pavani Pedadda; Christopher J. Wrigley; Robert C. Stirbl

doi:10.1117/12.512278

12 January 2004 Hardening CMOS imagers: radhard-by-design or radhard-by-foundry

Bedabrata Pain, Bruce R. Hancock, Thomas J. Cunningham, Suresh Seshadri, Chao Sun, Pavani Pedadda, Christopher J. Wrigley, Robert C. Stirbl

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Proceedings Volume 5167, Focal Plane Arrays for Space Telescopes; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512278
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A comparative study between radhard-by-design and radhard-by-foundry approaches for radiation hardening of CMOS imagers is presented. Main mechanisms for performance degradation in CMOS imagers in a radiation environment are identified, and key differences between the radiation effects in CMOS imagers and that in digital logic circuits are explained. Design methodologies for implementation of CMOS imagers operating in a radiation environment are presented. By summarizing the performance results obtained from imagers implemented in both radhard-by-design and radhard-by-foundry approaches, the advantages and shortcomings of both approaches are identified. It is shown that neither approach presents an optimum solution. The paper concludes by discussing an alternate pathway to overcome these limitations and enable the next-generation high-performance radiation-hard CMOS imagers.

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Bedabrata Pain, Bruce R. Hancock, Thomas J. Cunningham, Suresh Seshadri, Chao Sun, Pavani Pedadda, Christopher J. Wrigley, and Robert C. Stirbl "Hardening CMOS imagers: radhard-by-design or radhard-by-foundry", Proc. SPIE 5167, Focal Plane Arrays for Space Telescopes, (12 January 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.512278

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