Publications by Emanuele Ripiccini

Optimizing photon capture: advancements in amorphous silicon-based microchannel plates

Christophe Ballif, Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Samira Alexandra Frey

Microchannel plates are electron multipliers widely used in applications such as particle detection, imaging, or mass spectrometry and are often paired with a photocathode to enable photon detection. Conventional microchannel plates, made of glass fibers, ...

2025

Vascular Compression in Trigeminal Neuralgia Discloses Trigeminal Root Somatotopic Organization (S11.005)

Emanuele Ripiccini

Objective: In this combined clinical, neuroimaging and neurophysiological study we aim to explain classical trigeminal neuralgia symptoms and neurophysiological responses through the disclosure of trigeminal root somatotopic organization. Background: In Tr ...

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)2025

On-Chip Fully Reconfigurable Artificial Neural Network in 16 nm FinFET for Positron Emission Tomography

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Andrada Alexandra Muntean

Smarty is a fully-reconfigurable on-chip feed-forward artificial neural network (ANN) with ten integrated time-to-digital converters (TDCs) designed in a 16 nm FinFET CMOS technology node. The integration of TDCs together with an ANN aims to reduce system ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

On-chip artificial neural network for PET source position reconstruction

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini

This work presents the characterization results and methods used to determine the reconstruction of a 22Na point source placed in a coincidence setup. For this purpose, a novel, fully-integrated, reconfigurable feed-forward artificial neural network was im ...

IEEE2023

Single-Photon Avalanche Diode for Scalable Particle Detection

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Ming-Lo Wu, Ekin Kizilkan, Francesco Gramuglia

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs), also referred to as Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes, are primarily utilized in photon detection and counting. In this work, we present a measurement of the time-of-flight of minimum ionizing particles with outstand ...

IEEE2023

Sub-10 ps Minimum Ionizing Particle Detection With Geiger-Mode APDs

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Ming-Lo Wu, Francesco Gramuglia, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio

Major advances in silicon pixel detectors, with outstanding timing performance, have recently attracted significant attention in the community. In this work we present and discuss the use of state-of-the-art Geiger-mode APDs, also known as single-photon av ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Radiation Hardness Study of Single-Photon Avalanche Diode for Space and High Energy Physics Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Emanuele Ripiccini, Ming-Lo Wu, Ekin Kizilkan, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Francesco Gramuglia, Kazuhiro Morimoto, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio

The radiation hardness of 180 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and 55 nm bipolar-CMOS-double-diffused MOS single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) is studied using 10 MeV and 100 MeV protons up to a displacement damage dose of 1 PeV/g. It is ...

MDPI2022

Towards the ideal PET detector: a scalable architecture with high intrinsic spatial resolution, DOI and sub-200 ps TOF capability

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Francesco Gramuglia

IEEE2021

Blumino: The First Fully Integrated Analog SiPM With On-Chip Time Conversion

Edoardo Charbon, Andrei Ardelean, Emanuele Ripiccini, Andrada Alexandra Muntean, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Blumino is the first analog silicon photomultiplier with integrated amplifier, comparator and time-to-digital converter (TDC). The combination of a photodetector together with on-chip readout circuitry enables system-level advantages, such as internal para ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Light Extraction Enhancement Techniques for Inorganic Scintillators

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Emanuele Ripiccini, Simone Frasca, Francesco Gramuglia, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Scintillators play a key role in the detection chain of several applications which rely on the use of ionizing radiation, and it is often mandatory to extract and detect the generated scintillation light as efficiently as possible. Typical inorganic scinti ...

2021