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Training on quantum detection, single-photon imaging, SiPMs, SPADs

22–24 May 2013
TU-Delft
Europe/Zurich timezone
Deadline for booking the Delft channels trip is: Tuesday 7th of May, 2013. More info on "Accommodation & Venue" page

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  1. 0. Basics: avalanching theory, SPAD fundamentals, analog vs. digital SiPMs, readout architectures
    Edoardo Charbon (TU Delft)
    22/05/2013, 09:00
    Advanced manufacturing technologies for modern image sensors have advanced to the point where uncooled single-photon image can be considered a consumer product. Single-photon imaging brings its own challenges, and has developed a number of niche applications, but the nature of building detectors at these extreme performance levels means performance developments that can filter down through...
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  2. 1. Timing evaluation and processing, multi-channel digital SiPMs: a statistical approach, system issues, testing and metrology, other applications
    Edoardo Charbon (TU Delft)
    22/05/2013, 10:45
    Advanced manufacturing technologies for modern image sensors have advanced to the point where uncooled single-photon image can be considered a consumer product. Single-photon imaging brings its own challenges, and has developed a number of niche applications, but the nature of building detectors at these extreme performance levels means performance developments that can filter down through...
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  3. 2. Single-photon technology for HEP
    York Haemisch (P)
    22/05/2013, 14:00
    The lecture will introduce the concept of disruptive technologies using the example of the Digital Photon Counter (DPC, dSiPM) developed at Philips since 2004. The major characteristics of disruptive technologies will be worked out and examples given. As the development of the technology at Philips was triggered by its potential application in medical imaging, in particular in...
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  4. 3. The transition form HEP to Medical Imaging
    York Haemisch (P)
    22/05/2013, 15:45
    The lecture will introduce the concept of disruptive technologies using the example of the Digital Photon Counter (DPC, dSiPM) developed at Philips since 2004. The major characteristics of disruptive technologies will be worked out and examples given. As the development of the technology at Philips was triggered by its potential application in medical imaging, in particular in...
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  5. 4. New materials and fabrication for APDs, SPADs and SiPMs
    Prof. Lis K. Nanver (TU Delft)
    23/05/2013, 09:00
    The “new materials” that will be discussed in this lecture are depositions of pure boron and pure gallium, given the names PureB, PureGa and PureGaB. It may seem out of place to speak of boron as a novice in silicon technology since it has always been, and still is, the most commonly used p-dopant. Nevertheless, it is now recognized that boron, deposited by chemical-vapor deposition (CVD) in...
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  6. 5. Modeling of SPADs and SiPMs
    Mr Angelo Gulinatti (POLIMI)
    23/05/2013, 10:45
    Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and Silicon PhotoMultipliers (SiPMs) have since long ceased to be a scientific curiosity and have become a valuable tool for many applications both in research and industrial fields. Such a transition, on one hand, has been favored by the remarkable improvement in SPADs and SiPMs performance obtained in the last years; on the other hand, the widespread...
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  7. 8. SiPM Simulation and Design Lab (Training Session)
    Mr C. Veerappan, Esteban Venialgo (TU Delft), Shingo Mandai (TU Delft)
    23/05/2013, 14:00
    Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are an alternative to photomultiplier tubes because of their robustness to magnetic fields, compactness, and low bias voltage. To take advantage of the merits of SiPMs, the deep understandings of SiPM characteristics are required. In this workshop, we will model and simulate the SiPM using Cadence spectre simulator to investigate the SiPM characteristics as...
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  8. 7. CMOS SiPM design and signal compression
    Dr Lucio Pancheri (FBK)
    24/05/2013, 09:00
    This lecture reviews several design solutions adopted in both analog and digital SiPMs to improve their characteristics, with particular focus on timing and spatial resolution. A brief overview of SiPM technology developed at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is given. The problem of optimum timing pickoff is analyzed and the solutions adopted at FBK are described. The main limitations to...
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  9. 6. Time-to-digital converters
    Dr Francesco Regazzoni (TU Delft)
    24/05/2013, 10:45
    Time-to-digital converters (TDC) are devices which allow, with a certain precision, to digitally represent the time occurred. Their usage spawn over a large number of applications where a precise time time stamp is required. Due to technological progresses, reconfigurable hardware devices (such as FPGAs) have become an attractive platform for implementing low cost and high performances...
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  10. 9. TDC Design and Test Lab (Training Session)
    Mr C. Veerappan, Dr Francesco Regazzoni
    24/05/2013, 14:00
    The previous module will be completed by an hands-on laboratory session in which the students will design a small TDC and implement it on the provided FPGA platform. The Xilinx design environment will be utilized for this task, and the resulting configuration file will be tested on an FPGA board.
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