Image sensors having imaging pixels with ring-shaped gates

An image sensor may include a plurality of imaging pixels with high dynamic range. Each imaging pixel may have a photodiode, a floating diffusion region, and a transfer transistor configured to transfer charge from the photodiode to the floating diffusion region. Each imaging pixel may also include...

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1. Verfasser: Geurts, Tomas
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Zusammenfassung:An image sensor may include a plurality of imaging pixels with high dynamic range. Each imaging pixel may have a photodiode, a floating diffusion region, and a transfer transistor configured to transfer charge from the photodiode to the floating diffusion region. Each imaging pixel may also include an overflow capacitor and an overflow transistor interposed between the photodiode and the overflow capacitor. A dual conversion gain transistor may be interposed between the overflow capacitor and the floating diffusion region. To reduce noise associated with operation of the pixel, a ring-shaped conductive layer may form a gate for both the overflow transistor and the dual conversion gain transistor. This common gate may be set to an intermediate level during integration to allow charge to overflow past the overflow transistor to the overflow capacitor. The common gate may also be used to assert the dual conversion gain transistor.