Essential Principles of Image Sensors

Preface to Japanese Edition

More than thirty years have passed since I entered the field of image sensor technology. During this time, my main focus has been how image sensors should be understood. During these years, I have finally achieved a solution. In a sense, this book is also a reminder to sort out my remaining tasks. Thus, I ask readers for permission to present many of my own unique ways of understanding, explanations, structures of logics, and sometimes biases.

At university, I studied physics, which favors a unified perspective, and I believe that to understand is to be able to call up an image of the phenomenon in the mind. To realize my belief, I have tried to visualize physical phenomena by using my original figures to help readers’ ...