A Time-Resolved, Low-Noise Single-Photon Image Sensor Fabricated in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technology

M. Gersbach; Y. Maruyama; R.  Trimananda; Matthew Fishburn; David Stoppa; J. Richardson; Richard Walker; Robert Henderson; Edoardo Charbon

doi:10.1109/JSSC.2012.2188466

A Time-Resolved, Low-Noise Single-Photon Image Sensor Fabricated in Deep-Submicron CMOS Technology

M. Gersbach, Y. Maruyama, R. Trimananda, Matthew Fishburn, David Stoppa, J. Richardson, Richard Walker, Robert Henderson, Edoardo Charbon

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Abstract

We report on the design and characterization of a novel time-resolved image sensor fabricated in a 130 nm CMOS process. Each pixel within the 3232 pixel array contains a low-noise single-photon detector and a high-precision time-to-digital converter (TDC). The 10-bit TDC exhibits a timing resolution of 119 ps with a timing uniformity across the entire array of less than 2 LSBs. The differential non-linearity (DNL) and integral non-linearity (INL) were measured at ±0.4 and ±1.2 LSBs, respectively. The pixel array was fabricated with a pitch of 50 μm in both directions and with a total TDC area of less than 2000 μm2. The target application for this sensor is time-resolved imaging, in particular fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy and 3D imaging. The characterization shows the suitability of the proposed sensor technology for these applications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1394-1407
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Volume	47
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2012.2188466
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2012

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

FCS
FLIM
SPAD
Single-photon imaging
TDC
fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

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