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L3SPAD honored

The STW HTSM "L3SPAD: A Single-Photon, Time-Resolved Image Sensor for Low-Light-Level Vision" program has received funding. The program is led by Edoardo Charbon.

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Low-light-level (LLL) image sensors have been receiving great attention because they have various applications ranging from fluorescence microscopy to automotive sensing, from safety monitoring to 3D vision for robots. Traditionally, however, LLL image sensors have been used for military purposes because of their prohibitive costs. The appearance of monolithic solid-state complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) processes for the design and fabrication of photon counting image sensors has paved the way to enable low-cost and high-performance LLL image sensors. In this project, we will realize a gated 1.3Mpixel photon-counting image sensor in a standard CMOS process. The target sensor, with high timing resolution, low noise, and high photon detection efficiency, is the perfect candidate to meet all these technical and cost specifications.?

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