SPAD Image Sensors

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, integrated sensors based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) have definitely entered the market, providing optical detector systems with low-noise and picosecond timing resolution. An increasing amount of work is steadily going on in academia as well as in the industry to increase sensor performance and functionality towards time-resolved single-photon imaging. The simultaneous optimization of fabrication processes, circuits, and architectures is required to advance the state-of-the-art of art in this field and to enable an increasing number of applications in basic physics, biomedical, industrial, and consumer domains.

This Special Issue aims at providing an overview of the latest developments in CMOS-integrated SPAD pixel arrays, including work on detectors, pixels, readout circuits, chip architectures, and related applications. Submissions can span from technology processes to design and circuit innovations, from system-level analysis and optimization to electrical and optical characterization, all in relation to SPAD image sensors.

Prof. Dr. Lucio Pancheri
Dr. Matteo Perenzoni
Guest Editors

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