On-chip detection and counting of single-photons

Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 815-818

  Tisa, Simone ^a   Zappa, Franco ^a   Labanca, Ivan ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACTIVE QUENCHING CIRCUIT (AQC); DIGITAL COUNTING; SENSOR CHIPS; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE (SPAD);

RADIATION COUNTERS;

EID: 33846200167     PISSN: 01631918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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