Advanced Design of CMOS Image Sensors

CMOS image sensors (CISs) are one of the most important imaging devices these days. CISs enable bright, clear, and smooth-motion for a broad range of applications, from smartphones and digital cameras, and smart TVs. We have long been collaborating with SK-Hynix to develop advanced CISs, providing new CIS designs and analysis tools.

In our lab, we have been doing rigorous full 3D electromagnetic simulations based a finite domain time difference (FDTD) method for SK-Hynix’s CISs, running on a large PC clusters for parallel computation, which is essential for photonic devices with complex structures such as CISs.