Being ready-to-detect over a certain portion of time makes the time-gated single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) an attractive candidate for low-noise photon-counting applications. A careful SPAD noise and performance characterization, however, is crit...
In single-photon detection, dark count represents a critical limitation, particularly for high-sensitivity applications. Conventional estimators based on the binary per-gate observable become ill-conditioned when the dark count per-gate probability a...
Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays enable photon-starved applications, including time-of-flight imaging and stellar intensity interferometry. Their astronomical use remains scarcely explored, as the bottleneck is usually not detection but ra...
Silicon Photomultipliers find applications across various fields. One potential Silicon Photomultiplier application domain is neutrino telescopes, where they may enhance the angular resolution. However, the elevated dark count rate associated with Si...
Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM) is a sensor that can detect low-light signals lower than the single-photon level. In order to study the properties of neutrinos at a low detection threshold and low radioactivity experimental background, a low-temperatu...
Time-gating of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) was commonly used as a method to reduce dark noise in biomedical imaging applications where photon events are correlated with a reference clock. Time-gating was also used to obtain timing informat...
The Muon Telescope, MuTe, is an instrument for imaging volcanoes in Colombia. It consists of a scintillator tracking system and a water Cherenkov detector for particle energy measurement. The Muon Telescope operates autonomously in high-altitude envi...
In the field of near-infrared weak light detection, an InP/InGaAs single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is preferred due to the advantages of high sensitivity, low cost and room-temperature operation. To properly simulate and optimize the SPAD’s...
This paper reports the PHELEX experiment, i.e., PHoton–ELectron EXperiment, to search for the dark photons (DPs) of cold dark matter using a multicathode counter technique specifically developed for this purpose by the authors. The paper presen...
With the growing importance of single-photon-counting (SPC) techniques, researchers are now designing high-performance systems based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). SPADs with high performances and low cost allow the popularity of SPC-base...
Loophole-free violations of Bell inequalities are crucial for fundamental tests of quantum nonlocality. They are also important for future applications in quantum information processing, such as device-independent quantum key distribution. Based on a...
The integration of Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) in CMOS Fully Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FD-SOI) technology under a buried oxide (BOX) layer and a silicon film containing transistors makes it possible to realize a 3D SPAD at the chip le...
The performance of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) is highly dependent on the operating temperature, while traditional SPAD models neglect the self-heating effect induced by avalanche current during long-term device operation, leading to insuf...
This paper presents a process-controlled study of illumination engineering in single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) fabricated in a 110 nm standard CMOS image sensor (CIS) technology. Front-illuminated (FI) and back-illuminated (BI) SPADs were imple...
Detection of light dark matter, such as axion-like particles, puts stringent requirements on the efficiency and dark-count rates of microwave-photon detectors. The possibility of operating a current-biased Josephson junction as a single-microwave pho...
A current-assisted single-photon avalanche diode (CASPAD) is presented with a large and deep absorption volume combined with a small p-n junction in its middle to perform avalanche trigger detection. The absorption volume has a drift field that serve...
Superconducting microstrips single-photon detectors (SMSPDs) are a novel type of single-photon sensor based on superconducting thin films patterned into micrometer-scale strip widths. Compared with superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SN...
Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) are photo-electronic devices able to detect single photons and permit the measurement of weak optical signals. Single-photon detection is accomplished through high-performance read-out front-end electronics whose desi...
Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) have improved significantly over the last years and now are widely employed in many different applications. However, the custom fabrication technologies exploited for commercial SiPMs do not allow the integration of a...
We investigate the feasibility of single and entangled photon-based quantum key distribution protocols at telecommunication wavelengths with two types of single photon detectors, namely InGaAs/InP and Silicon-APD, under various realistic conditions....
Microalgae are a source of carbohydrates, proteins and lipids. Thus, they can be considered as raw material to transition from current fossil fuel-based refineries to biorefineries. Microalgae harvesting is considered a major challenge in biomass pro...
In this paper, we report the use of a superconducting transmon qubit in a 3D cavity for quantum machine learning and photon counting applications. We first describe the realization and characterization of a transmon qubit coupled to a 3D resonator, p...
Belle II is a particle physics experiment working at an high luminosity collider within a hard irradiation environment. The Time-Of-Propagation detector, aimed at the charged particle identification, surrounds the Belle II tracking detector on the ba...
A lidar detects atmospheric parameters by transmitting laser pulse to the atmosphere and receiving the backscattering signals from molecules and aerosol particles. Because of the small backscattering cross section, a lidar usually uses the high sensi...
Galaxy number counts in the K-, H-, I-, R-, B- and U-bands from the Durham Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmology catalogue could be well-fitted over their whole range using luminosity function (LF) parameters derived from the SDSS at the bright regio...
The design and implementation of a real-time breakdown voltage and on-chip temperature monitoring system for single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) is described in this work. In the system, an on-chip shaded (active area of the detector covered by a...
The Beam Dump eXperiment (BDX) is a an electron-beam thick-target experiment aimed to investigate the existence of light Dark Matter particles in the MeV-GeV mass region at Jefferson Lab. The experiment will make use of a 10.6 GeV high-intensity elec...
The radiation intensity of observed auroras in the far-ultraviolet (FUV) band varies dramatically with location for aerospace applications, requiring a photon counting imaging apparatus with a wide dynamic range. However, combining high spatial resol...
We study the emission of photons from germinating seeds using an experimental technique designed to detect light of extremely small intensity. We analyze the dark count signal without germinating seeds as well as the photon emission during the germin...
The capacity for achieving immense specificity and resolution in science increases day to day. Fluorescence-activated nuclear sorting (FANS) offers this great precision, enabling one to count and separate distinct types of nuclei from specific cells...
Asymmetric metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) UV sensors with 24% Al were fabricated using a selective annealing technique that dramatically reduced the dark current density and improved the ohmic behavior and performanc...
In a recent paper we have described an optical implementation of a measure-once one-way quantum finite automaton recognizing a well-known family of unary periodic languages, accepting words not in the language with a given error probability. To proce...
The influence of lighting on crime was investigated by considering the effect of ambient light level on crimes recorded in three US cities for the ten-year period 2010 to 2019. Crime counts were compared for similar times of day, before and after the...
The use of antimicrobials in the pork industry is critical in order to ensure food safety and, at the same time, extend shelf life. The objective of the study was to determine the impact of antimicrobials on indicator bacteria on pork loins under lon...
The study was conducted to test whether radicle emergence (RE) would correlate with the storage potential of ten seed lots of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai) hybrid cultivars (>98% normal germination). The RE test was per...
In anthropologist Joel Robbins’ pioneering work on divergences within cultural anthropology about the goals of anthropology and crucial differences between anthropology and theology on this matter, he diagnoses anthropology with a lack of crite...
In this study, a 3.06 μm pitch single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) pixel with an embedded metal contact and power grid on two-step deep trench isolation in the pixel is presented. The embedded metal contact can suppress edge breakdown and reduce...
Charge-coupled device (CCD) spectrometers are widely used as detectors in analytical laboratory instruments and as sensors for in situ optical measurements. However, as the applications become more complex, the physical and electronic limits of the C...
Tuberculosis (TB) is a common infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which usually disturbs the lungs, and remains the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease worldwide after the human immunodeficiency virus. Herein...
Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are a promising technology for fundamental physics applications due to their low dark count rates, excellent energy resolution, and high detection efficiency. On the DESY campus, we have been developing...
Determining the size of the German insect fauna requires better knowledge of several megadiverse families of Diptera and Hymenoptera that are taxonomically challenging. This study takes the first step in assessing these “dark taxa” famili...
This paper is a numerical simulation of highly dispersive optical solitons in birefringent fibers with polynomial nonlinear form, which is achieved for the first time. The algorithmic approach is applied with the usage of the Laplace–Adomian de...
A compact single-photon counting module that can accurately control the bias voltage and hold-off time is developed in this work. The module is a microcontroller-based system which mainly consists of a microcontroller, a programmable negative voltage...
Megalurothrips usitatus (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a key destructive pest of cowpea, resulting in considerable economic losses. Understanding M. usitatus’s oviposition preference in various plant parts under distinct photoperiod treatments is impor...
Single-event effects (SEEs) present a significant challenge to the radiation reliability of integrated circuits. Conventional SEE analysis methods for single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) devices primarily rely on Sentaurus Technology Computer-Aided...
Methane reforming is an important potential technology for solving both environmental and energy problems. This technology is important because methane is counted as a greenhouse gas, but on the other hand, it can be reformed into industrially valuab...
The causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, poses significant health and economic problems in the United States and elsewhere. Developing borreliastatic or borreliacidal agents requires the use of solvent vehicles. Vehicle tolerance ca...
Laser ranging technology holds a key position in the military, aerospace, and industrial fields due to its high precision and non-contact measurement characteristics. As a core component, the performance of the photon detector directly determines the...
The circadian clock is a self-sustaining oscillator with a period of approximately 24 h, enabling organisms to anticipate daily recurring events, such as sunrise and sunset. Since the circadian period is not exactly 24 h and the environmental day len...
We present an optical depth imaging system suitable for highly scattering underwater environments. The system used the time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) technique and the time-of-flight approach to obtain depth profiles. The single-photo...
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