Planar technologies for SPAD arrays with improved performances

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8268, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gulinatti, Angelo ^a   Panzeri, Francesco ^a   Rech, Ivan ^a   MacCagnani, Piera ^b   Ghioni, Massimo ^a,c   Cova, Sergio ^a,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c MPD Micro Photon Devices   (Italy)

Author keywords

Enhanced Photon Detection Efficiency; Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE); RE SPAD; Red Enhanced SPAD; Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD); SPAD arrays; Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC)

Indexed keywords

PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY (PDE); RE-SPAD; RED-ENHANCED SPAD; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SPAD ARRAY; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING;

EFFICIENCY; FABRICATION; NANOPHOTONICS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 84856882242     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.908648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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