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A High-PDE, Backside-Illuminated SPAD in 65/40-nm 3D IC CMOS Pixel With Cascoded Passive Quenching and Active Recharge

Edoardo Charbon, Scott Anthony Lindner

We present a complete pixel based on a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) fabricated in a backside-illuminated (BSI) 3D IC technology. The chip stack comprises an image sensing tier produced in a 65-nm image sensor technology and a data processing tier i ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Applications of a reconfigurable SPAD line imager

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) fabricated in standard CMOS processes enable cost-effective volume production of sensors capable of time-stamping individual photons with high accuracy. This capability makes the sensors ideally suited for application ...

2018

Dynamic range extension for photon counting arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Confocal microscopes use photomultiplier tubes and hybrid detectors due to their large dynamic range, which typically exceeds the one of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The latter, due to their photon counting operation, are usually limited to an o ...

2018

A Time-Resolved, Low-Noise Single-Photon Image Sensor Fabricated in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Marek Gersbach

We report on the design and characterization of a novel time-resolved image sensor fabricated in a 130 nm CMOS process. Each pixel within the 32x32 pixel array contains a low-noise single-photon detector and a high-precision time-to-digital converter (TDC) ...

2012

A 0.32 x 0.12 mm2 Cryogenic BiCMOS 0.1-8.8 GHz Low Noise Amplifier Achieving 4 K Noise Temperature for SNWD Readout

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Jad Benserhir

A significant number of cryogenic low -noise amplifiers (cryo-LNAs) are required for the readout of superconducting nanowire detector (SNWD) arrays. It is desirable to have compact cryo-LNAs in place so that the size of the readout circuitry for the SNWD a ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

First Near-Ultraviolet- and Blue-Enhanced Backside-Illuminated Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Based on Standard SOI CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee

We present the world's first backside-illuminated (BSI) single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based on standard silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology. This SPAD achieves a good dark count rate (DCR) after backs ...

2019

Design and characterization of a CMOS 3-D image sensor based on single photon avalanche diodes

Edoardo Charbon, Cristiano Niclass, Pierre-André Besse, Alexis Rochas

The design and characterization of an imaging system is presented for depth information capture of arbitrary three-dimensional (3-D) objects. The core of the system is an array of 32 × 32 rangefinding pixels that independently measure the time-of-flight of ...

2005

On Analog Silicon Photomultipliers in Standard 55-nm BCD Technology for LiDAR Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Tommaso Milanese, Jiuxuan Zhao

We present an analog silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) based on a standard 55-nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. The SiPM is composed of 16 x 16 single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and measures 0.29 x 0.32 mm(2). Each SPAD cell is passively quenched by ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Design techniques for a stable operation of cryogenic field-programmable gate arrays

Edoardo Charbon

In this paper, we show how a deep-submicron field-programmable gate array (FPGA) can be operated more stably at extremely low temperatures through special firmware design techniques. Stability at low temperatures is limited through long power supply wires ...

2018

Modeling and Analysis of a Direct Time-of-Flight Sensor Architecture for LiDAR Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Chunmin Zhang, Preethi Padmanabhan

Direct time-of-flight (DTOF) is a prominent depth sensing method in light detection and ranging (LiDAR) applications. Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays integrated in DTOF sensors have demonstrated excellent ranging and 3D imaging capabilities, ma ...

2019

Toward video-rate compressive spontaneous Raman imaging via single-photon avalanche diode arrays

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri

Spontaneous Raman microscopy is well-known for its remarkable chemical contrast yet suffers from slow acquisition speeds. Recently, the compressive Raman microspectroscopy framework has shown that a significant speed advantage is brought by leveraging shot ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Random flip-flop: adding quantum randomness to digital circuits for improved cyber security, artificial intelligence and more

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

Harnessing quantum randomness for the generation of random numbers is an important concept crucial for information security and many other computer-related applications. Quantum random number generators (QRNGs) are evolving from bulky, slow, and expensive ...

SPIE2021

Hybrid Small Animal Imaging System Combining Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Fluorescence Tomography Using Single Photon Avalanche Diode Detectors

Edoardo Charbon, Lucio Carrara

The high sensitivity of fluorescence imaging enables the detection of molecular processes in living organisms. However, diffuse light propagation in tissue prevents accurate recovery of tomographic information on fluorophore distribution for structures emb ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Light detection and ranging with entangled photons

Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü, Jiuxuan Zhao

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for depth imaging through complex environments. Despite recent advances, an open challenge is the ability to isolate the LiDAR signal from other spurious sources including background lig ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2022

LinoSPAD: a time-resolved 256x1 CMOS SPAD line sensor system featuring 64 FPGA-based TDC channels running at up to 8.5 giga-events per second

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri

LinoSPAD is a reconfigurable camera sensor with a 256x 1 CMOS SPAD (single-photon avalanche diode) pixel array connected to a low cost Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA. The LinoSPAD sensor's line of pixels has a pitch of 24 pm and 40% fill factor. The FPGA implements ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Back-gate effects on DC performance and carrier transport in 22 nm FDSOI technology down to cryogenic temperatures

Edoardo Charbon, Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Hung-Chi Han, Antonio D'Amico

This paper presents an in-depth DC characterization of a 22 nm FDSOI CMOS technology down to deep cryogenic temperature, i.e., 2.95 K. The impact of the back-gate voltage (V-back) on device performance, i.e., threshold voltage (V-T) and carrier transport, ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Measurements and analysis of different front-end configurations for monolithic SiGe BiCMOS pixel detectors for HEP applications

Edoardo Charbon

This paper presents a small-area monolithic pixel detector ASIC designed in 130 nm SiGe BiCMOS technology for the upgrade of the pre-shower detector of the FASER experiment at CERN. The purpose of this prototype is to study the integration of fast front-en ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Single-Photon, Time-Gated, Phasor-Based Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging through Highly Scattering Medium

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) is increasingly recognized as a powerful tool for biochemical and cellular investigations, including in vivo applications. Fluorescence lifetime is an intrinsic characteristic of any fluorescent dye which, to a large ext ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Towards a scalable quantum computer

Edoardo Charbon

A quantum machine may solve some complex problems that are intractable for even the most powerful classical computers. By exploiting quantum superposition and entanglement phenomena, quantum algorithms can achieve from polynomial to exponential speed up wh ...

2018

A Scaling Law for SPAD Pixel Miniaturization

Edoardo Charbon, Kazuhiro Morimoto

The growing demands on compact and high-definition single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays have motivated researchers to explore pixel miniaturization techniques to achieve sub-10 μm pixels. The scaling of the SPAD pixel size has an impact on key perfo ...

2021