A modular, high performance, 2 /spl mu/m CCD-BiCMOS process technology for application specific image sensors and image sensor systems on a chip

A 2 /spl mu/m BiCMOS process module has been developed for incorporation into existing charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor processes. The modular process architecture allows integration of CMOS, NPN bipolar or BiCMOS circuits without affecting the baseline CCD characteristics, and enables on-chip integration of desired analog and digital circuit functions with the image sensor. To our knowledge this is the first demonstration of high performance CCD, 2 /spl mu/m CMOS, and an isolated vertical NPN integrated on the same chip.<
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