Single-photon avalanche diode imagers applied to near-infrared imaging

JM Pavia, M Wolf, E Charbon - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) can be integrated into large pixel arrays. The aim
of this paper is to present a view on how these imagers change the paradigm of wide-field …

3D near-infrared imaging based on a single-photon avalanche diode array sensor

JM Pavia, E Charbon, M Wolf - European Conference on Biomedical …, 2011 - opg.optica.org
An imager for optical tomography was designed based on a detector with 128× 128 single-
photon pixels that included a bank of 32 time-to-digital converters. Due to the high spatial …

Monolithic single-photon avalanche diodes: SPADs

E Charbon, MW Fishburn - Single-Photon Imaging, 2011 - Springer
The art of creating monolithic single-photon photodetectors is a mix of design skills and
device physics knowledge, and it requires an understanding of the mechanisms underlying …

III-nitride-based avalanche photo detectors

R McClintock, E Cicek, Z Vashaei… - … Focal Plane, Single …, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Research into III-Nitride based avalanche photodiodes (APDs) is motivated by the need for
high sensitivity ultraviolet (UV) detectors in numerous civilian and military applications. By …

A single-photon avalanche diode in 90-nm CMOS imaging technology with 44% photon detection efficiency at 690 nm

EAG Webster, JA Richardson, LA Grant… - IEEE Electron …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A CMOS and back-side illumination-compatible single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is
reported in 90-nm imaging technology with a peak photon detection efficiency of≈ 44% at …

[PDF][PDF] An infra-red sensitive, low noise, single-photon avalanche diode in 90nm CMOS

EAG Webster, JA Richardson, LA Grant… - International Image …, 2011 - research.ed.ac.uk
A Single-Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) is reported in 90nm CMOS imaging technology
with a peak photon detection efficiency (PDE) of≈ 44% at 690nm and better than≈ 20% at …

Single-photon avalanche diode-based detection and imaging: Bringing the photodiode out of its comfort zone

M Perenzoni - IEEE Solid-state circuits magazine, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Our society is becoming more and more reliant on images, and we are getting used to
having a visual representation of everything. However, our eyes are, in some ways, quite …

Performance trade-offs in single-photon avalanche diode miniaturization

H Finkelstein, MJ Hsu, S Zlatanovic… - Review of scientific …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) provide photons' time of arrival for various
applications. In recent years, attempts have been made to miniaturize SPADs in order to …

Characterization of a novel avalanche photodiode for single photon detection in VIS-NIR range

M Stipčević, H Skenderović, D Gracin - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
In this work we investigate operation in the Geiger mode of the new single photon avalanche
photo diode (SPAD) SAP500 manufactured by Laser Components. This SPAD is sensitive in …

Single-photon avalanche diodes in a 0.16 μm BCD technology with sharp timing response and red-enhanced sensitivity

M Sanzaro, P Gattari, F Villa, A Tosi… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
CMOS single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) have recently become an emerging
imaging technology for applications requiring high sensitivity and high frame-rate in the …