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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2020
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Eric J. Beuville, Goleta, CA (US);
Micky Harris, Lompoc, CA (US);
Ryan Boesch, Goleta, CA (US);
Christian M. Boemler, Goleta, CA (US);
RAYTHEON COMPANY, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A pixel includes a detector that changes its operating characteristics based on incident energy, an integration capacitor arranged to discharge stored charge through the detector based on changes in the operating characteristics, and an floating gate injection device disposed between the photo-diode and the integration capacitor that controls flow of the charge from the integration capacitor to the detector. The floating gate injection device has a gate, a source electrically coupled to the detector at a first node, and a drain electrically coupled to the integration capacitor. The gate has a control voltage (V) stored therein to set to a per-pixel bias gate voltage to control a detector bias voltage of the detector at the first node.