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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2006
Filed:
May. 24, 2004
Qiang Luo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Staton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christina Phan, San Jose, CA (US);
Caron Yvonne Thor, San Jose, CA (US);
Edith Kwong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Papalias, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Qiang Luo, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Staton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christina Phan, San Jose, CA (US);
Caron Yvonne Thor, San Jose, CA (US);
Edith Kwong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chris Papalias, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
An array of active pixel sensor cells is operated to substantially reduce the gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) current component of the dark current. In addition, the array is tested to determine the number of cells in the array that are bad, and discards the array of active pixel sensor cells when the number of bad cells exceeds a predefined limit.