A 640x512-20 mu m Dual-Polarity ROIC for MWIR and LWIR Hybrid FPAs

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2016-01-01

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Akın, Tayfun
Bayhan, Nusret
Isikhan, Murat
Soyer, S. Tuncer
Ustundag, C. Mithat B.
Kocak, Serhat
Turan, Ozge
Eksi, Umut
Akin, TAYFUN

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This paper reports the development of a new dual-polarity Direct-Injection (DI) Readout Integrated Circuit (ROIC), called MT6420DDA, designed to support back-to-back connected photodiodes with a single contact per pixel using dual pixel input circuitries suitable for both p-on-n and n-on-p type detectors. The ROIC has a format of 640 x 512 (VGA) and a pixel pitch of 20 mu m, and can be used to build dual-color or dual-band FPAs working in the MWIR and / or LWIR bands. The ROIC supports snapshot operation with Integrate-then-Read (ITR) and Integrate-while-Read modes (IWR). MT6420DDA has a system-on-chip architecture, with programmable biasing, timing, and configuration. The ROIC supports 2, 4, and 8-output modes at pixel output rates up to 12.5 MHz per output. It runs on 3.3 V analog and 1.8 V digital supplies, and dissipates less than 135 mW in the 4-output mode at 10 MHz. The ROIC has separate programmable full well capacitance values of 1.5 Me-, 3.0 Me-, and 6.0 Me-for both polarities in the high-gain (HG), mid-gain (MG), and low-gain (LG) modes. The ROIC supports two type of polarity switching modes as PSBF (Polarity Switching between Frames) and PSWF (Polarity Switching within Frames). In the PSBF modes, an alternating input polarity is used for each detector type for each frame during each integration period, possibly with different full-well and integration time settings. In the PSWF mode, both type of pixels are exposed almost simultaneously, where detector current is integrated in a time multiplexed manner using the two separate integration capacitors of the pixel input circuitry. The PSBF mode is simple, but the time stamp for each image frame is different. The PSWF mode is complex, but results in a pseudo simultaneous registration of images for each color or spectral band. The ROIC has been developed for cryogenic operation down to 65K with an input referred noise level of less than 470 e- rms in the low-gain (LG) mode at 77K. The MT6420DDA ROIC has been fabricated on 200 mm wafers containing a total of 89 parts with typically 75 working parts. Mikro-Tasarim provides tested ROIC wafers and offers compact test electronics and software for its ROIC customers to shorten their FPA and camera development cycles. MT6420DDA can also be used together with MTAS1410X8, an 8-channel ASIC from Mikro-Tasarim, that can be used to drive the FPA and digitize its analog outputs to build compact and low-noise Integrated-Detector-Dewar-Cooler-Assembly (IDDCA) units and camera cores.

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Dual-polarity, Direct injection, ROIC, MWIR, LWIR, Cryogenic, Cryogenic, Hybrid, FPA, MT6420DDA

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49105

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2224743

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Conference / Seminar

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T. Akın et al., “A 640x512-20 mu m Dual-Polarity ROIC for MWIR and LWIR Hybrid FPAs,” 2016, vol. 9819, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/49105.