Progress in silicon single-photon avalanche diodes

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 852-862

  Ghioni, Massimo ^a,b,c   Gulinatti, Angelo ^a,b   Rech, Ivan ^a,b   Zappa, Franco ^a,b,c   Cova, Sergio ^a,b,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MPD Micro Photon Devices   (Italy)

Author keywords

Array detectors; Photon counting; Photon timing; Single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs); Time correlated singlephoton counting (TCSPC)

Indexed keywords

ARRAY DETECTORS; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MICROELECTRONICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 40549130585     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.902088     Document Type: Article

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