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Design And Characterization Of Ultra High Frame Rate Burst Image Sensors, Rakesh K. Kabra

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This thesis research was aimed at investigating and designing novel architectures required for ultra high frame rate (UHFR) imagers capable of operating at frame rates in excess of 10⁶ frames/sec. To demonstrate the feasibility of these architectures, a 180 x 180 element UHFR-I imager was designed and fabricated. The imager chip stored the latest 32 frames at its on-chip memory locations rather than performing a continuous readout. It was demonstrated that this architecture approach could achieve a frame acquisition rate of 2 x 10⁶ frames/sec. Additionally, other novel design features were incorporated to minimize optical cross talk and …