L3SPAD honored
- Thursday, 18 December 2014
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.
Description
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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