floating region; floating diffusion

A high-conductivity doped region without ohmic connection into or from which charge packets are transferred by overlapping or adjacent transfer gates.

NOTE A floating region can be used as the sense node for the charge signal in detection or regenerating circuits.

References

JESD99B, 5/07

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