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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 03, 2016
Applicant:

Fundació Institut DE Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels, ES;

Inventors:

Gerasimos Konstantatos, Castelldefels, ES;

Frank Koppens, Castelldefels, ES;

Stijn Goossens, Castelldefels, ES;

Juan JoséPiqueras, Castelldefels, ES;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/361 (2011.01); H04N 5/376 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H01L 27/1464 (2013.01); H01L 27/14614 (2013.01); H01L 27/14623 (2013.01); H04N 5/361 (2013.01); H04N 5/3698 (2013.01); H04N 5/376 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided are image sensors with non-local readout circuits that include a substrate and a plurality of pixels and operatively connected to a control unit, wherein the control unit has first and second biasing circuits for providing, respectively, substantially symmetrical first and second biasing voltages and including, respectively, first and second selection means to selectively bias the pixels; and a readout circuit for reading out the pixels; and in that each pixel includes a photo-active element that has a photosensitizing layer associated to a transport layer; a non-photo-active reference element; first and second contacts circuitally connected, respectively, to the first and second biasing circuits; and an output contact circuitally connected to the readout circuit; wherein the photo-active element is circuitally connected between the first and output contacts, and the reference element is circuitally connected between the output and second contacts. Also provided are optoelectronic systems that include the image sensor.


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