A single photon detector implemented in a 130nm CMOS imaging process

ESSDERC 2008 - Proceedings of the 38th European Solid-State Device Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 270-273

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

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); DETECTORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; JITTER; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PASSIVATION; PHOTODETECTORS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SNOW; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

BIO PHOTONICS; CIRCULAR STRUCTURES; CMOS IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME IMAGING; GUARD RINGS; OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS; PHOTON DETECTIONS; PLANARITY; SHALLOW TRENCH ISOLATIONS; SINGLE PHOTONS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 58049116358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSDERC.2008.4681750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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