A thin film on ASIC (TFA) image sensor is fabricated depositing an amorphou
s silicon thin-film detector onto a CMOS ASIC, With regards to advanced ima
ging systems, TFA provides enhanced performance and more flexibility than c
onventional technologies. Extensive on-chip signal processing is feasible,
as well as small pixels for high-resolution imagers, Two new TFA imager pro
totypes have recently been fabricated, High-resolution image sensor (HIRISE
II) with 1024 x 128 pixels is an active pixel sensor suited for digital ph
otography. Local autoadaptiver sensor (LARS II) with 368 x 256 pixels split
s the illumination information into two signals, thereby providing a dynami
c range of more than 120 dB, as required by automotive applications, Both p
rototypes include correlated double sampling and double delta sampling for
efficient suppression of fixed pattern noise.