The new Schottky barrier diode helps protect image sensors from damage, even when they're powered off, from sunlight.

Abstract: This paper proposes a solid-state circuit breaker comprising silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs and a SiC diode, based on the principle of avalanche voltage clamping. The key challenge in ...

Abstract: This paper presents a low-power readout circuit with 14-bit column-level extended-counting ADC for 17μm-pitch 1024 × 768 silicon diode uncooled infrared imagers. The ADC's coarse conversion ...