Research progress of infrared single-photon detection with high gain (Invited)

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 20211016-20211016
Author(s):  
吴静远 Jingyuan Wu ◽  
刘肇国 Zhaoguo Liu ◽  
张彤 Tong Zhang
2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 20211016-20211016
Author(s):  
吴静远 Jingyuan Wu ◽  
刘肇国 Zhaoguo Liu ◽  
张彤 Tong Zhang

PhotoniX ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lemin Jia ◽  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Feng Huang

Abstract High-performance vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) photodetectors are of great significance to space science, radiation monitoring, electronic industry and basic science. Due to the absolute advantages in VUV selective response and radiation resistance, ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors such as diamond, BN and AlN attract wide interest from researchers, and thus the researches on VUV photodetectors based on these emerging semiconductor materials have made considerable progress in the past 20 years. This paper takes ultra-wide bandgap semiconductor filterless VUV photodetectors with different working mechanisms as the object and gives a systematic review in the aspects of figures of merit, performance evaluation methods and research progress. These miniaturized and easily-integrated photodetectors with low power consumption are expected to achieve efficient VUV dynamic imaging and single photon detection in the future.


Instruments ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Fabio Acerbi ◽  
Anurag Behera ◽  
Alberto Dalla Mora ◽  
Laura Di Sieno ◽  
Alberto Gola

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are pixelated single-photon detectors combining high sensitivity, good time resolution and high dynamic range. They are emerging in many fields, such as time-domain diffuse optics (TD-DO). This is a promising technique in neurology, oncology, and quality assessment of food, wood, and pharmaceuticals. SiPMs can have very large areas and can significantly increase the sensitivity of TD-DO in tissue investigation. However, such improvement is currently limited by the high detector noise and the worsening of SiPM single-photon time resolution due to the large parasitic capacitances. To overcome such limitation, in this paper, we present two single-photon detection modules, based on 6 × 6 mm2 and 10 × 10 mm2 SiPMs, housed in vacuum-sealed TO packages, cooled to −15 °C and −36 °C, respectively. They integrate front-end amplifiers and temperature controllers, being very useful instruments for TD-DO and other biological and physical applications. The signal extraction from the SiPM was improved. The noise is reduced by more than two orders of magnitude compared to the room temperature level. The full suitability of the proposed detectors for TD-DO measurements is outside the scope of this work, but preliminary tests were performed analyzing the shape and the stability of the Instrument Response Function. The proposed modules are thus fundamental building blocks to push the TD-DO towards deeper investigations inside the body.


Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 372 (6540) ◽  
pp. 356.3-356
Author(s):  
Ian S. Osborne

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Hans ◽  
Philipp Schmidt ◽  
Christian Ozga ◽  
Gregor Hartmann ◽  
Xaver Holzapfel ◽  
...  

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document