Sensors for positron emission tomography applications

W Jiang, Y Chalich, MJ Deen - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is an essential tool in clinical applications for
the diagnosis of diseases due to its ability to acquire functional images to help differentiate …

CMOS time-to-digital converters for biomedical imaging applications

R Scott, W Jiang, MJ Deen - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are high-performance mixed-signal circuits capable of
timestamping events with sub-gate delay resolution. As a result of their high-performance, in …

High-performance back-illuminated three-dimensional stacked single-photon avalanche diode implemented in 45-nm CMOS technology

MJ Lee, AR Ximenes, P Padmanabhan… - IEEE Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a high-performance back-illuminated three-dimensional stacked single-photon
avalanche diode (SPAD), which is implemented in 45-nm CMOS technology for the first time …

Silicon-Based Avalanche Photodiodes: Advancements and Applications in Medical Imaging

KA Lozovoy, RMH Douhan, VV Dirko, H Deeb… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Avalanche photodiodes have emerged as a promising technology with significant potential
for various medical applications. This article presents an overview of the advancements and …

A 16-channel analog CMOS SiPM with on-chip front-end for D-ToF LiDAR

M Liu, B Liu, J Hu, D Li, J Ma, Z Chu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 16-channel analog silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) with on-chip front-
end for direct time-of-flight (D-ToF) LiDAR applications. The proposed receiver is mainly …

A CMOS fully differential optoelectronic receiver for short-range LiDAR sensors

JE Joo, MJ Lee, SM Park - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents an optoelectronic receiver IC with on-chip avalanche photodiode (APD)
realized in a 180-nm CMOS process for the applications of indoor-monitoring light detection …

Subtractive photonics in bulk cmos

C Ives, D Sarkar, A Hajimiri - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Subtractive photonics is presented as a method for implementing photonic waveguides into
any bulk CMOS or electronics process. Metal and glass are patterned in the backend layers …

Optically synchronized phased arrays in CMOS

M Gal-Katziri, C Ives, A Khakpour… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical synchronization of large-span arrays offers significant benefits over electrical
methods in terms of the weight, cost, power dissipation, and complexity of the clock …

Subtractive photonics

R Fatemi, C Ives, A Khachaturian, A Hajimiri - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Realization of a multilayer photonic process, as well as co-integration of a large number of
photonic and electronic components on a single substrate, presents many advantages over …

A 45 nm CMOS avalanche photodiode with 8.4-GHz bandwidth

W Zhi, Q Quan, P Yu, Y Jiang - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Photodiode is one of the key components in optoelectronic technology, which is used to
convert optical signal into electrical ones in modern communication systems. In this paper …