TY - CHAP AU - Durini, Daniel AU - Arutinov, David TI - Operational principles of silicon image sensors VL - 60 CY - UK PB - Woodhead Publishing Ltd. Elsevier Imprint M1 - FZJ-2014-03361 SN - 978-0-85709-598-5 T2 - Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials SP - 25 - 77 PY - 2014 AB - This chapter discusses in detail the physics behind the different silicon based photodetector technologies. It analyses the challenges and perspectives of silicon based photosensors with a brief overview of hybrid and 3D sensor technology.Key words : silicon based phototransduction , active pixel architectures, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) photosensors, charge coupled device (CCD), silicon imaging, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), hybrid and 3D detector technology. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)7 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/153887 ER -