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Potential applications of electron emission membranes in medicine

Edoardo Charbon

With a miniaturised stack of transmission dynodes, a noise free amplifier is being developed for the detection of single free electrons, with excellent time- and 2D spatial resolution and efficiency. With this generic technology, a new family of detectors ...

2015

A Sensor Network Architecture for Digital SiPM-Based PET Systems

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Francesco Gramuglia

Digital silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) have emerged in the recent past as a viable low cost alternative to photomultiplier tubes in positron emission tomography systems, providing multiple timestamps, energy and scintillation coordinates at high spatial ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

A review of recent developments on CMOS single-photon avalanche diode-based cameras for biomedical time-resolved applications

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini

All-solid-state time-resolved cameras based on CMOS single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays have made very significant advances since the fabrication of the first CMOS SPADs back in 2003. These natively digital sensors are now available in large format ...

SPIE2024

Plug-and-play TOF-PET Module Readout Based on TDC-on-FPGA and Gigabit Optical Fiber Network

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner technology requires the use of a large number of PET detector modules that work in a parallel and synchronous manner. Moreover, system modularity is a desirable feature, that enables technology reutilization for d ...

IEEE2019

SPAD Developed in 55 nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS Technology Achieving Near 90% Peak PDP

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Francesco Gramuglia, Myung Jae Lee, Ekin Kizilkan, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Won Yong Ha

We present a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) developed in 55 nm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology, which achieves high photon detection probability (PDP) while its breakdown voltage is lower than 20 V. To enhance the PDP performance, the SPAD junctio ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Way Stealing: A Unified Data Cache and Architecturally Visible Storage for Instruction Set Extensions

Edoardo Charbon, Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Ties Jan Henderikus Kluter

Way Stealing is a simple architectural modification to a cache-based processor that increases the data bandwidth to and from application-specific instruction set extensions (ISEs), which increase performance and reduce energy consumption. Way Stealing offe ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Generalized Event Cameras

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini

Event cameras capture the world at high time resolution and with minimal bandwidth requirements. However, event streams, which only encode changes in brightness, do not contain sufficient scene information to support a wide variety of downstream tasks. In ...

IEEE Computer Society2024

Nonuniformity Analysis of a 65-kpixel CMOS SPAD Imager

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Samuel Burri

While CMOS single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) technology has steadily advanced, improving noise, timing resolution, and sensitivity, spatial resolution has been increasing as well. The increase in the number of pixels has made a comprehensive analysis of ...

IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2016

Overview of Cryogenic Operation in Nanoscale Technology Nodes

Edoardo Charbon

Cryogenic operation is the backbone of many cutting edge applications. Significant work has been done to characterize and model all cryogenic effects for creating a reliable, robust and efficient cryogenic design across a wide range of technologies and pro ...

IEEE2023

CMOS-based cryogenic control of silicon quantum circuits

Edoardo Charbon

The most promising quantum algorithms require quantum processors that host millions of quantum bits when targeting practical applications(1). A key challenge towards large-scale quantum computation is the interconnect complexity. In current solid-state qub ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

The impact of classical control electronics on qubit fidelity

Edoardo Charbon

Quantum processors rely on classical electronic controllers to manipulate and read out the quantum state. As the performance of the quantum processor improves, non-idealities in the classical controller can become the performance bottleneck for the whole q ...

2018

A Low Dark Count p-i-n Diode Based SPAD in CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon

In this paper, a novel CMOS single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is presented, and the device is designed using a vertical p-i-n diode construction. The p-i-n diode with a wide depletion region enables a low-noise operation. The proposed design achieves da ...

2015

Challenges and prospects for multi-chip microlens imprints on front-side illuminated SPAD imagers

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Scott Anthony Lindner, Tommaso Milanese, Ermanno Bernasconi, Vladimir Pesic

The overall sensitivity of frontside-illuminated, silicon single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays has often suffered from fill factor limitations. The fill factor loss can however be recovered by employing microlenses, whereby the challenges specific t ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

A new double multiplication region method to design high sensitivity and wide spectrum SPADs in standard CMOS technologies

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca

Designing SPADs with high sensitivity in a wide wavelength range is crucial since the applications utilizing SPAD-based sensors target different parts of the spectrum. Here, we introduce a novel technique to achieve a wider sensitivity spectrum through the ...

Nature Research2024

Optimizing photon capture: advancements in amorphous silicon-based microchannel plates

Edoardo Charbon, Christophe Ballif, Claudio Bruschini, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Jad Benserhir, Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates are electron multipliers widely used in applications such as particle detection, imaging, or mass spectrometry and are often paired with a photocathode to enable photon detection. Conventional microchannel plates, made of glass fibers, ...

2025

Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Imagers Applied to Near-Infrared Imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Juan Mata Pavia

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 near-infrared imaging (NIRI). Thanks to the large number of pixels that they ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2014

Method and light microscope with a plurality of arrays of photon-counting detector elements

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A method for operating a light microscope comprises emitting and guiding a plurality of illumination light beams towards a specimen (6) to form a plurality of separated illumination light spots (2A, 2B, 2C, 2D) at the specimen; and guiding detection light ...

2022

Mesoscopic light-sheet imaging set-up for 3D SWIR fluorescence intensity and NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini

Fluorescence lifetime imaging offers the unique ability to monitor the molecular status of the tissue microenvironment. However, the scattering nature of tissues remains a challenge for mesoscopic 3D high resolution imaging. We introduce the design of a me ...

SPIE2025

Characterization and Analysis of On-Chip Microwave Passive Components at Cryogenic Temperatures

Edoardo Charbon, Andrea Ruffino

This paper presents the characterization and modeling of microwave passive components in TSMC 40-nm bulk CMOS, including metal-oxide-metal (MoM) capacitors, transformers, and resonators, at deep cryogenic temperatures (4.2 K). To extract the parameters of ...

2020

Characterization of bipolar transistors for cryogenic temperature sensors in standard CMOS

Edoardo Charbon

This paper presents the cryogenic characterization of the bipolar substrate PNPs that are typically employed as sensing elements in CMOS integrated temperature sensors. PNPs realized in a standard 160-nm CMOS technology were characterized over the temperat ...

2017