Abstract
This letter reports a new source of dark current random telegraph signal in CMOS image sensors due to meta-stable Shockley-Read-Hall generation mechanism at oxide interfaces. The role of oxide defects is discriminated thanks to the use of ionizing radiations. A dedicated RTS detection technique and several test conditions (radiation dose, temperature, integration time, photodiode bias) reveal the particularities of this novel source of RTS.
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