Image sensors are the crucial part of various analog and digital electronic devices such as digital cameras, webcams, camera phones, camera modules, optical mouse devices, medical applications, night vision cameras, thermal cameras, barcode scanners, radar, sonar, and many others.
An image sensor is a type of sensor that detects and conveys information used to make images. The information is the variation in light waves. This data of attenuation of the light waves are converted to electrical signals. The signals created are like short bursts of current that carry information. The image sensors mostly use either CCD (Charge Coupled Device) or CMOS technology.
CCD Technology-Based Image Sensors
CCDs (Charge Couple Devices) use MOS (Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) capacitors and CMOS amplifier stage for image sensing. Here, an array of MOS capacitors is employed, each carrying an electric charge corresponding to the light intensity of a pixel. With the help of a control circuit, the charge from one capacitor is transferred to its neighboring capacitor. The process here is similar to the data transfer in shift registers. The charge from the last capacitor in the array is transferred to a charge amplifier. The charge amplifier reads the quantity of that charge and in this way, an image is formed. The CCD-based image sensors are used in high-end broadcast systems where quality is a concern.
CMOS Technology-Based Image Sensors
CMOS image sensors are also based on MOS technology like the CCD technology. But in this technology, a photodiode, and a MOSFET is used for each pixel. This allows the pixel data to be amplified individually. With this approach, the CMOS image sensors achieve a higher data rate than CCDs. Further, noise occurrence is also low in CMOS technology. In addition, CMOS image sensors cost less to produce and are preferred in compact devices due to their low power consumption.
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