Publications related to Characterization of Standard CMOS Compatible Photodiodes and Pixels for Lab-on-Chip Devices

Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing.

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has been the most significant driver in the field of nucleic acid testing (NAT) since its invention. Popularized as an abbreviation by the Covid-19 pandemic, PCR-based methods are the gold standard in the field of diagnostic ...

EPFL2023

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Edoardo Charbon

A burst image sensor named Hanabi, meaning fireworks in Japanese, includes a branching CCD and multiple CMOS readout circuits. The sensor is backside-illuminated with a light/charge guide pipe to minimize the temporal resolution by suppressing the horizont ...

2021

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

The invention relates to an image sensor comprising a photodetector array including neighboring photodetector elements, each photodetector element comprising: - a photodetector cell having a photodiode and a reset unit; - a cell control unit coupled with t ...

2021

An Ultra Low-Noise Micropower PPG Sensor

Antonino Caizzone

Nowadays, efficient and remote health monitoring is becoming increasingly important, given both the ageing of population and the combined action of an increase in obesity level and cardiovascular diseases. The healthcare industry is becoming more reliant o ...

EPFL2020

Modeling for Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Raffaele Capoccia

The low-light performance of a CMOS image sensor (CIS) is one of the most important performance metrics in a camera, whether it is used in products for consumer electronics or in an image-acquisition system for machine vision or the Internet-of-Things (IoT ...

EPFL2020

Quanta burst photography

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Arin Can Ülkü, Mohit Gupta, Shantanu Gupta

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are an emerging sensor technology capable of detecting individual incident photons, and capturing their time-of-arrival with high timing precision. While these sensors were limited to singlepixel or low-resolution dev ...

2020

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Raffaele Capoccia

The current trend towards embedding more and more light sensors in portable and wearable devices is calling for higher integration and reuse of the sensor interface electronics. In many applications, the light needs to be generated locally, which becomes t ...

IEEE2020

High Spectral Resolution Plasmonic Color Filters with Subwavelength Dimensions

Giulia Tagliabue

Rapid advances in image sensor technology have generated a mismatch between the small size of image sensor pixels and the achievable filter spectral resolution. This mismatch has prevented the realization of chip-based image sensors with simultaneously hig ...

2019

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a pixel sensor cell (1) for a CMOS sensor device comprising: - a photodiode (11) for generating photoelectrons; - a first transfer transistor (12) coupling the photodiode (11) with an intermediate node (IN) and configured t ...

2019

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Edoardo Charbon, Myung Jae Lee, Preethi Padmanabhan, Augusto Ronchini Ximenes

This article introduces a modular, direct time-of-flight (TOF) depth sensor. Each module is digitally synthesized and features a 2

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2019

Characterization of Standard CMOS Compatible Photodiodes and Pixels for Lab-on-Chip Devices

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Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing.

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

An Ultra Low-Noise Micropower PPG Sensor

Modeling for Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Quanta burst photography

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

High Spectral Resolution Plasmonic Color Filters with Subwavelength Dimensions

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Electronic readout of DNA amplification in nanoliter chambers. Strategies towards highly parallel semiconductor-based nucleic acid amplification testing.

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Low-power image sensor system with single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

An Ultra Low-Noise Micropower PPG Sensor

High Spectral Resolution Plasmonic Color Filters with Subwavelength Dimensions

Design and Optimization of Low Power and Low Light Sensor

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Modeling for Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

A Modular, Direct Time-of-Flight Depth Sensor in 45/65-nm 3-D-Stacked CMOS Technology

Quanta burst photography