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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2015
Teledyne Dalsa B.v., AE Eindhoven, NL;
Willem Hendrik Maes, Lommel, BE;
TELEDYNE DALSA B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention is related to a multi full-well pixel for a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) active pixel image sensor. It is further related to a MOS active pixel image sensor comprising a plurality of such pixels. The invention is particularly related to active pixel image sensors realized in complementary MOS (CMOS) technology. According to the invention, a MOS capacitor is used as a switchable capacitor, wherein the gate electrode is connected to the voltage that is to be read out. Semiconductor-side contacts of the MOS capacitor are used to apply a switching control signal that allows the effective capacitance of the MOS capacitor to be selected and being radiation-hard for damaging X-ray radiation.