It came to my attention that CRC Press released "
High Performance CMOS Range Imaging: Device Technology and Systems Considerations" by Andreas Suss in 2016. The book appears to be a version of Andreas Suss 2014 PhD Thesis, freely
available on Duisburg University site.
Hi Vladimir,
ReplyDeletethank you for the exposure! Indeed this is an updated version of my dissertation. It is a bit cleaned up and printed in proper binding. CRC by the way prints this in a series in which also Renato Turchetta edited an interesting book called “Analog Electronics for Radiation Detection”.
The ToF pamphlet is basically summarizing my contributions made 2009-2013 in the group of Prof. Bedrich Hosticka (now under Werner Brockherde) at the Fraunhofer IMS/Univ. Duisburg. It has major focus on indirect time-of-flight (mainly pulsed). As it was written ~2012-2013 it didn’t take into account the recent advancements in direct time-of-flight. Therefore, please have a look at the great work from Christiano Niclass (e.g. ISSCC’13), David Stoppa, Eduardo Charbon, Nealle Dutton and so on. David Stoppa also edited a nice ToF book published at Springer. In terms of time-of-flight techniques, my colleagues at IMEC - where I reside as of 2014 - and me wrote an benchmark paper published in SPIE9751.
Some more recent updates on the pulse modulated time-of-flight work of the IMS have been published at IISW15 and SPIE9751. One of the key-issues of this indirect pulsed modulation approach is calibration. If you are curious, please have a look at SPIE9751 and the work of Adrian Driewer (SPIE9506, Solid-State Electronics 126 (2016), S.51-58 and upcoming thesis). Considering device level, also the work of Adrian or Elena Poklonskaya were dedicated to the FhG-IMS lateral drift-field detector.
Looking back at the work, I guess the most interesting part was probably rather the JFET readout architecture which was inspired by the work of Matsunaga and Brewer. It is a shame this did not get higher priority – considering that similar devices are now considered for deep-sub electron imaging (look at most recent work of Eric Fossum & Jiaju Ma).
Kind regards,
Andreas