A 130-nm CMOS single photon avalanche diode

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6766, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Niclass, Cristiano ^a   Gersbach, Marek ^a   Henderson, Robert ^b   Grant, Lindsay ^c   Charbon, Edoardo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c STMicroelectronics Ltd Bristol   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CMOS single photon detector; Geiger mode of operation; Single photon avalanche diode; SPAD

Indexed keywords

BLOCKING PROBABILITY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PASSIVE NETWORKS; PHOTODETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

GEIGER MODE OF OPERATION; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE (SPAD); SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 42449106620     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.728878     Document Type: Conference Paper

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