A 48 mW DROIC with 15-bit pixel-level ADC for 640&#215;512 mid-wave infrared imagers

Shan-Zhe YU; Ya-Cong ZHANG; Yu-Ze NIU; Ye ZHOU; Yi ZHUO; Ding MA; Wen-Gao LU; Zhong-Jian CHEN; Xiang-Yang LI

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2022.04.019

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