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A 73% Peak PDP Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Implemented in 110 nm CIS Technology With Doping Compensation

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca

In this article, we present 10 mu m diameter SPADs fabricated in 110 nm CIS technology based on an N (+) /HVPW junction, with enhanced sensitivity at short wavelengths. To reduce tunneling noise due to the highly-doped layers in the process, a doping compe ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Guard-Ring-Free InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Based on a Novel One-Step Zn-Diffusion Technique

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca, Vladimir Pesic

This work presents a novel InGaAs/InP SPAD structure fabricated using a selective area growth (SAG) method. The surface topography of the selectively grown film deposited within the 70 mu m diffusion apertures is used to engineer the Zn diffusion profile t ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

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

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

Radiation Hardness Study of Single-Photon Avalanche Diode for Space and High Energy Physics Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Francesco Gramuglia, Emanuele Ripiccini, Ekin Kizilkan, Ming-Lo Wu, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Kazuhiro Morimoto

The radiation hardness of 180 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and 55 nm bipolar-CMOS-double-diffused MOS single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) is studied using 10 MeV and 100 MeV protons up to a displacement damage dose of 1 PeV/g. It is ...

MDPI2022

Extended Temperature Modeling of InGaAs/InP SPADs

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Myung Jae Lee, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca, Vladimir Pesic

We present a simulation method to estimate the dark count rate (DCR), photon detection probability (PDP), and dark current of InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) from 225K to 300K. All simulations are performed completely in TCAD and match we ...

IEEE2023

Advanced Silicon and SWIR Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes: Design, Simulation, and Characterization

Ekin Kizilkan

Low-level light detection with high spatial and timing accuracy is a growing area of interest by virtue of applications such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), biomedical imaging, time-resolved Raman spectroscopy, and quantum applications. Single-phot ...

EPFL2024

Double multiplication region configuration for near-infrared sensitivity enhancement in silicon cmos single-photon avalanche diodes

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca

A near-infrared sensitivity enhanced substrate non-isolated silicon single-photon avalanche diode is disclosed, comprising a p-well layer (101), a high-voltage n-well (102), the p-well layer and the high- voltage n-well layer positioned against each other ...

2024

Single-Photon Avalanche Diode for Scalable Particle Detection

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Francesco Gramuglia, Emanuele Ripiccini, Ekin Kizilkan, Ming-Lo Wu, Jad Benserhir

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), also referred to as Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes, are primarily utilized in photon detection and counting. In this work, we present a measurement of the time-of-flight of minimum ionizing particles with outstand ...

IEEE2023

Teaching single-photon detection metrology with off-the-shelf CMOS SPAD detectors

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ekin Kizilkan, Utku Karaca

The fabrication of the first CMOS single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) back in 2003 paved the way to a range of photodetection applications based on single-photon detection, photon counting, and photon time-stamping. In turn, it has become more and more ...

SPIE2025

Optical-stack optimization for improved SPAD photon detection efficiency

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Rolando Ferrini, Arin Can Ülkü, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Scott Anthony Lindner, Ekin Kizilkan, Frédéric Zanella

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are direct photon-to-digital detectors that enable scalable arrays with Poisson-limited signal-to-noise ratio and picosecond timing resolution. However, SPAD detectors require a guard-ring structure to prevent lateral ...

2019

Engineering Breakdown Probability Profile for PDP and DCR Optimization in a SPAD Fabricated in a Standard 55nm BCD Process

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

CMOS Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) have broken into the mainstream by enabling the adoption of imaging, timing, and security technologies in a variety of applications within the consumer, medical and industrial domains. The continued scaling of te ...

2021

Low-noise high-dynamic-range single-photon avalanche diodes with integrated PQAR circuit in a standard 55 nm BCD

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

Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based sensors and systems enable a variety of applications in biomedical, automotive, consumer, and security domains. While several established standard technologies, which can facilitate the design of SPAD-based system ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022