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Silicon CMOS and InGaAs(P)/InP SPADs for NIR/SWIR detection

Applications demanding imaging at low-light conditions at near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) wavelengths, such as quantum information science, biophotonics, space imaging, and light detection and ranging (LiDAR), have accelerated the develo ...

EPFL2024

Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Image Sensors for Harsh Radiation Environments

Ming-Lo Wu

The space industry has experienced substantial growth in recent years, leading to rapid advancements in space exploration and space-based technologies. Consequently, the study of electronics and sensor performance in extreme environments has become crucial ...

EPFL2024

Shortwave Infrared-Sensitive, Narrowband Organic Upconversion Devices with a Gain

Wei-Hsu Hu

Sensing and imaging of light in the shortwave infrared (SWIR) range is increasingly used in various fields, including bio-imaging, remote sensing, and semiconductor process control. SWIR-sensitive organic photodetectors (OPDs) are promising because organic ...

EPFL2024

Doping Engineering for PDP Optimization in SPADs Implemented in 55-nm BCD Process

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Myung Jae Lee, Feng Liu

We introduce a new family of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) with enhanced depletion regions in a 55-nm Bipolar-CMOS-DMOS (BCD) technology. We demonstrate how to systematically engineer doping profiles in the main junction and in deep p-well layers ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Imaging sensor device using an array of single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean

The invention relates to an Imaging sensor device in a stacked arrangement comprising: - a pixel array tier comprising a plurality of pixel segments each having a plurality of pixels for photon detection each providing a digital pixel output; - a processin ...

2024

Time-resolved imaging with SPAD detectors

Jiuxuan Zhao

With the capabilities such as single-photon detection, time stamping and high-speed acquisition, time-resolved imaging based on single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors has found significant applications across diverse domains, including but not limi ...

EPFL2023

Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

Edoardo Charbon, Paul Mos, Mohit Gupta

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are novel image sensors that record the arrival of individual photons at extremely high temporal resolution. In the past, they were only available as single pixels or small-format arrays, for various active imaging ap ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

X-ray imaging detector for radiological applications adapted to the context and requirements of low- and middle-income countries

Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Hubert Blanchard, René Salathé, Jean-Philippe Thiran, Romain Sahli, Sébastien Emmanuel Blanc, Mario Andres Chavarria Varon, Matthias Hüser, Jérôme Schmid

This paper describes the development of a novel medical x-ray imaging system adapted to the needs and constraints of low- and middle-income countries. The developed system is based on an indirect conversion chain: a scintillator plate produces visible ligh ...

2022

Understanding Wavelength-Dependent Synergies between Morphology and Photonic Design in TiO2-Based Solar Powered Redox Cells

Giulia Tagliabue, Jiaming Ma, Kiseok Oh

Solar powered redox cells (SPRCs) are promising for large-scale and long-term storage of solar-energy, particularly when coupled with redox flow batteries (RFBs). While efforts have primarily focused on heterostructure engineering, the potential of synergi ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

MALTA3: Concepts for a new radiation tolerant sensor in the TowerJazz 180 nm technology

Francesco Piro

The upgrade of the MALTA DMAPS designed in Tower 180 nm CMOS Imaging process will implement the numerous modifications, as well as front-end changes in order to boost the charge collection efficiency after the targeted fluence of 1x10(15) 1 MeVn(eq)/cm(2). ...

ELSEVIER2022

Monocrystalline 1.7-eV MgCdTe solar cells

Mathieu Gérard Boccard

Monocrystalline 1.7 eV Mg0.13Cd0.87Te/MgxCd1-xTe (x > 0.13) double heterostructure (DH) solar cells with varying Mg compositions in the barrier layers are grown by molecular beam epitaxy. A Mg0.13Cd0.87Te/Mg0.37Cd0.63Te DH solar cell featuring abrupt inter ...

AIP Publishing2022

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Edoardo Charbon

A burst image sensor named Hanabi, meaning fireworks in Japanese, includes a branching CCD and multiple CMOS readout circuits. The sensor is backside-illuminated with a light/charge guide pipe to minimize the temporal resolution by suppressing the horizont ...

2021

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

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, 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

Parameter-free rendering of single-molecule localization microscopy data for parameter-free resolution estimation

Aleksandra Radenovic, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux, Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer

Localization microscopy is a super-resolution imaging technique that relies on the spatial and temporal separation of blinking fluorescent emitters. These blinking events can be individually localized with a precision significantly smaller than the classic ...

2021

Towards quantum 3D imaging devices

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We introduce a new generation of 3D imaging devices based on quantum plenoptic imaging. Position-momentum entanglement and photon number correlations are exploited to provide a scan-free 3D image after post-processing of the collected light intensity signa ...

2021

Synthesis of NIR-Absorbing Squaraine Dyes and their Use in Organic Upconversion Devices

Karen Verena Strassel

Squaraines are organic dyes showing the advantages of a simple synthesis, high absorption coefficients and tunable bandgaps from the visible to the near-infrared (NIR) region. Their molecular structure is based on a polymethine chain and a donor-acceptor-d ...

EPFL2021

Modeling for Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Raffaele Capoccia

The low-light performance of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) is one of the most important performance metrics in a camera, whether it is used in products for consumer electronics or in an image-acquisition system for machine vision or the Internet-of-Things (IoT ...

EPFL2020

An Ultra Low-Noise Micropower PPG Sensor

Antonino Caizzone

Nowadays, efficient and remote health monitoring is becoming increasingly important, given both the ageing of population and the combined action of an increase in obesity level and cardiovascular diseases. The healthcare industry is becoming more reliant o ...

EPFL2020

System, device and method for quantum correlation measurement with single photon avalanche diode arrays

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A system for photon correlation of an illuminated object and/or a light source, including a light source for illuminating the object or to correlate, an optical system having an object-facing side configured to face the object or the light source and a pro ...

2020

Non-invasive glucose sensor

Assim Boukhayma

An optical device for the in noninvasive determination of the concentration of glucose or another analyte in blood using a combination of Raman spectrometry and PPG. The device includes an optical detector, preferably a CMOS imager including pinned photodi ...

2020