Single-photon avalanche diode imagers in biophotonics: review and outlook

C Bruschini, H Homulle, IM Antolovic, S Burri… - Light: Science & …, 2019 - nature.com
Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays are solid-state detectors that offer imaging
capabilities at the level of individual photons, with unparalleled photon counting and time …

Progress in single-photon avalanche diode image sensors in standard CMOS: From two-dimensional monolithic to three-dimensional-stacked technology

MJ Lee, E Charbon - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Single-photon detection and photon counting are useful tools in many fields, from light
detection and ranging (LiDAR) to biomedical imaging and from time-resolved Raman …

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 …

Architecture optimization of SPAD integrated in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS technology to reduce the DCR

D Issartel, S Gao, P Pittet, R Cellier, D Golanski… - Solid-State …, 2022 - Elsevier
This article presents a study of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) implemented in 28
nm Fully Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FD-SOI) CMOS technology based on transient …

3D-stacked CMOS SPAD image sensors: Technology and applications

E Charbon, C Bruschini, MJ Lee - 2018 25th IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
3D-stacked CMOS SPAD based image sensors hold the promise for better sensitivity and
more functionality per pixel. The technology enables to separate detection from computation …

High concentration factor diffractive microlenses integrated with CMOS single-photon avalanche diode detector arrays for fill-factor improvement

PWR Connolly, X Ren, A McCarthy, H Mai, F Villa… - Applied …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Large-format single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays often suffer from low fill-factors—
the ratio of the active area to the overall pixel area. The detection efficiency of these detector …

Advances in silicon-based in-sensor computing for neuromorphic vision sensors

Y Liu, R Fan, X Wang, J Hu, R Ma, Z Zhu - Microelectronics Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent security systems, assisted
driving and artificial intelligence, traditional machine vision sensors no longer meet the …

Integration of SPAD in 28nm FDSOI CMOS technology

TC De Albuquerque, F Calmon, R Clerc… - 2018 48th European …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper reports the first experimental results obtained on a Single Photon Avalanche
Diode (SPAD) implemented, in a 28nm FDSOI CMOS technology. The main originality relies …

Widefield high frame rate single-photon SPAD imagers for SPIM-FCS

J Buchholz, J Krieger, C Bruschini, S Burri… - Biophysical …, 2018 - cell.com
Photon-counting sensors based on standard complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) represent an emerging class of imagers that …

First near-ultraviolet-and blue-enhanced backside-illuminated single-photon avalanche diode based on standard SOI CMOS technology

MJ Lee, P Sun, G Pandraud… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the world's first backside-illuminated (BSI) single-photon avalanche diode
(SPAD) based on standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide …