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A low-voltage CMOS-compatible time-domain photodetector, device & front end electronics

During the last decades, the usage of silicon photodetectors, both as stand-alone sensor or integrated in arrays, grew tremendously. They are now found in almost any application and any market range, from leisure products to high-end scientific apparatuses ...

EPFL2016

A dynamic operation of a PIN photodiode

Alexander Tagantsev, Maher Kayal, Serguei Okhonin, Adil Koukab, Maxim Gureev, Alexander Kvasov, Marc Pastre, Denis Sallin

Traditionally, photodiodes operate at static reverse bias, and incident light intensity is obtained from the relatively week photocurrent. In this paper, we introduce a different concept of photodiode function: the photodiode is used in a dynamic regime wh ...

American Institute of Physics2015

Silicon-on-Insulator Technology for Bioluminescence Imaging and Application to a Switching Photodetector

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Denis Sallin, Nisrina Abdo

This paper analyzes some advantages of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) based photodetectors for bioluminescence imaging. It shows that SOI based sensors not only solve the bulk carriers problem, it can also act as a very selective spectral filter by acting as a ...

Ieee2015

Toward direct light-to-digital conversion using a pulse-driven hybrid MOS-PN photodetector

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Denis Sallin

In this Letter, a direct light-to-digital converter based on an MOS-PN photodetector driven by pulsed voltage is presented. The objective is to avoid any analog-to-digital or time-to-digital conversion and, thereby, to pave the way for a new generation of ...

Optical Society of America2015

MOS-PN Hybrid Device With Minimum Dark Current for Sensitive Digital Photodetection

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Denis Sallin

This letter presents a CMOS-compatible photodetector displaying direct light-to-time conversion and intrinsic charge integration with a very low dark current. This device is particularly adapted for applications requiring high sensitivity such as biolumine ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Hybrid MOS-PN photodiode with positive feedback for pulse-modulation imaging

Maher Kayal, Adil Koukab, Denis Sallin

A new type of CMOS compatible photodetector, exhibiting intrinsic light-to-time conversion, is proposed. Its main objective is to start the time-to-digital conversion directly at its output, thereby avoiding the cumbersome analog processing. The operation ...

Optical Society of America2014

An Ultra-High Speed Emulator Dedicated to Power System Dynamics Computation Based on a Mixed-Signal Hardware Platform

Maher Kayal, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Guillaume Olivier Lanz, Denis Sallin

This paper presents an ultra-high speed hardware platform dedicated to power system dynamic (small signal) and transient (large signal) stability. It is based on an intrinsic parallel architecture which contains hybrid mixed-signal (analog and digital) cir ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

A 3D architecture platform dedicated to high-speed computation for power system

Maher Kayal, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Laurent Fabre, Ira Nagel, Theodoros Kyriakidis, Guillaume Olivier Lanz, Denis Sallin

This paper presents an innovative 3D hardware architecture for power system dynamic and transient stability. Based on an intrinsic parallel architecture by means of mixedsignal circuits (analog and digital) it overcomes the speed of numerical simulators fo ...

2013