Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Purdue Research Foundation

University of Illinois

Jonghyun Go

Jae-kyu Lee

Rashid Bashir

Muhammad Ashraful Alam

Bobby Reddy, Jr

Pradeep R Nair

An image sensor for securing an area of a photodiode includes a pixel area and a transistor area adjacent to the pixel area. The pixel area may include a photodiode and a floating diffusion area. The transistor area may include transistors extending along an edge of the pixel area. The transistors in the transistor area may include a reset transistor, one or more source follower transistors, and one or more selection transistors, and the reset transistor and one source follower transistor adjacent to the reset transistor may share a common drain area. The source follower transistors and the selection transistors may each share a common source area or a common drain area between two adjacent transistors thereof.

Image sensors

Disclosed are a semiconductor device and an image sensor including the same. The semiconductor device includes a device isolation layer defining an active region on a semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode crossing the active region, a gate insulating pattern between the gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate, a first impurity region provided at a first side of the gate electrode in the active region, and a second impurity region provided at a second side of the gate electrode in the active region, and the gate insulating pattern includes a first edge portion adjacent to a first sidewall of the device isolation layer, a second edge portion adjacent to a second sidewall of the device isolation layer, and a center portion between the first and second edge portions, and the first edge portion has a first thickness, and the second edge portion has a second thickness smaller than the first thickness.

Semiconductor device and image sensor including the same

Provided herein are methods and devices for measuring pH and for amplifying a pH signal to obtain ultrasensitive detection of changes in pH. This is achieved by providing a sensor and a transducer, wherein the sensor transconductance is sensitive to changes in pH and the transducer transconductance is not affected by pH change. The transducer instead compensates for changes in the sensor transconductance arising from pH change. The unique configuration of the sensor and transducer with respect to each other provides substantial increases in a pH amplification factor, thereby providing pH sensing devices with a giant Nernst response and, therefore, effectively increased pH sensitivity.

Coupled heterogeneous devices for pH sensing

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Seongnam-si, South Korea

Jonghyun Go