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MALTA-Cz: a radiation hard full-size monolithic CMOS sensor with small electrodes on high-resistivity Czochralski substrate

Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (DMAPS) sensors developed in the Tower Semiconductor 180 nm CMOS imaging process have been designed in the context of the ATLAS ITk upgrade Phase-II at the HL-LHC and for future collider experiments. The "MALTA-Czoch ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

Theory and application of a data-driven approach to compressive spectrometry in the assessment of neurophotic stimulation

Forrest Simon Webler

Recent advances in biology and neuroscience have elucidated pathways in which visible light initiates a signaling process, via the eye, responsible for activating direct and indirect biological responses. While the full impact of unnatural light patterns o ...

EPFL2022

Large-Format Time-Gated SPAD Cameras for Real-Time Phasor-Based FLIM

Arin Can Ülkü

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is an imaging modality often used to monitor biochemical properties of a cell or a tissue. In addition to conventional fluorescence microscopy features, such as selective labeling and non-invasiveness, FLIM e ...

EPFL2021

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

The invention relates to an image sensor comprising a photodetector array including neighboring photodetector elements, each photodetector element comprising: - a photodetector cell having a photodiode and a reset unit; - a cell control unit coupled with t ...

2021

Megapixel SPAD cameras for time-resolved applications

Kazuhiro Morimoto

Progress in optics technology has enriched our daily lives in many ways. Various types of single-photon detector technologies have emerged in the last century. Among these, single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology outperforms other detectors for its ...

EPFL2020

Towards Real-World Super-Resolution using Deep Neural Networks

Ruofan Zhou

Image super-resolution reconstructs a higher-resolution image from the observed low-resolution image. In recent years, machine learning models have been widely employed and deep learning networks have achieved state-of-the-art super-resolution performance. ...

EPFL2020

Simulation of CMOS APS Operation and Crosstalk in SPICE With Generalized Devices

Jean-Michel Sallese, Chiara Rossi

We present SPICE simulations of a CMOS APS pixel element consisting of the optical sensor with the sensing circuit. The photodiode is simulated at the physics level by means of the so-called Generalized Devices, without any predefined compact model. Conver ...

2020

Embedded Polarizing Filters to Separate Diffuse and Specular Reflection

Adam James Scholefield, Gilles Baechler, Laurent Valentin Jospin

Polarizing filters provide a powerful way to separate diffuse and specular reflection; however, traditional methods rely on several captures and require proper alignment of the filters. Recently, camera manufacturers have proposed to embed polarizing micro ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a pixel sensor cell (1) for a CMOS sensor device comprising: - a photodiode (11) for generating photoelectrons; - a first transfer transistor (12) coupling the photodiode (11) with an intermediate node (IN) and configured t ...

2019

Synthetic electronic video containing a hidden image

Sabine Süsstrunk, Roger Hersch, Mahmut Sami Arpa

We present a method for hiding images in synthetic videos and reveal them by temporal averaging. We developed a visual masking method that hides the input image both spatially and temporally. Our masking approach consists of temporal and spatial pixel by p ...

2019

Temporal Super-Resolution Microscopy Using a Hue-Encoded Shutter

Sylvain Calinon, Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling, Emmanuel Pignat, Christian Jaques

Limited time-resolution in microscopy is an obstacle to many biological studies. Despite recent advances in hardware, digital cameras have limited operation modes that constrain frame-rate, integration time, and color sensing patterns. In this paper, we pr ...

2019

Deep Residual Network for Joint Demosaicing and Super- Resolution

Sabine Süsstrunk, Radhakrishna Achanta, Ruofan Zhou

The two classic image restoration tasks, demosaicing and super-resolution, have traditionally always been studied indepen- dently. That is sub-optimal as sequential processing, demosaic- ing and then super-resolution, may lead to amplification of ar- tifac ...

Society for Imaging Science and Technology ( IS&T )2018

Electrochemical Imaging of Cells and Tissues

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Tzu-En Lin

The technological and experimental progress in electrochemical imaging of biological specimens is discussed with a view on potential applications for skin cancer diagnostics, reproductive medicine and microbial testing. The electrochemical analysis of sing ...

2018

Sampling the Multiple Facets of Light

Gilles Baechler

The theme of this thesis revolves around three important manifestations of light, namely its corpuscular, wave and electromagnetic nature. Our goal is to exploit these principles to analyze, design and build imaging modalities by developing new signal proc ...

EPFL2018

An Any-Resolution Distributed Pressure Localization Scheme Using a Capacitive Soft Sensor Skin

Jamie Paik, Harshal Arun Sonar, Michelle Ching-Sum Yuen

We present a method to determine the location of an applied pressure on a large area, monolithic silicone based capacitive sensor. In contrast to pressure sensor arrays composed of n x n discrete sensors, we utilize a single sensor body with a single instr ...

2018

Time-resolved Single-photon Detector Arrays for High Resolution Near-infrared Optical Tomography

Scott Anthony Lindner

Oxygenation is an important marker in many clinical settings, e.g. diagnosing ischaemic brain injuries in preterm infants or determining treatment effectiveness in cancer patients. Despite significant efforts to determine the oxygenation state of the human ...

EPFL2018

Ten years of biophotonics single-photon SPAD imager applications: retrospective and outlook, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XVII

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini

SPAD (single-photon avalanche diode) arrays are single-photon imagers that can provide unparalleled timeresolved sensing performance. Since their inception in standard CMOS technologies (2003), a host of architectures and target applications have been expl ...

2017

MRI artifact correction using sparse plus low-rank decomposition of annihilating filter-based hankel matrix

Kyong Hwan Jin

PurposeMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) artifacts are originated from various sources including instability of an magnetic resonance (MR) system, patient motion, inhomogeneities of gradient fields, and so on. Such MRI artifacts are usually considered as ir ...

Wiley2017

A high sensitivity, low noise and high spatial resolution multi-band infrared reflectography camera for the study of paintings and works on paper

Marie Eve Pascale Didier

Background: Infrared reflectography (IRR) remains an important method to visualize underdrawing and compositional changes in paintings. Older IRR camera systems are being replaced with near-infrared cameras consisting of room temperature infrared detector ...

Biomed Central Ltd2017

Revealing Information by Averaging

Sabine Süsstrunk, Roger Hersch, Mahmut Sami Arpa

We present a method for hiding images in synthetic videos and reveal them by temporal averaging. The main challenge is to develop a visual masking method that hides the input image both spatially and temporally. Our masking approach consists of temporal an ...

Optical Soc Amer2017