The quanta image sensor: Every photon counts

ER Fossum, J Ma, S Masoodian, L Anzagira, R Zizza - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
The Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) was conceived when contemplating shrinking pixel sizes
and storage capacities, and the steady increase in digital processing power. In the single-bit …

Photon-number-resolving megapixel image sensor at room temperature without avalanche gain

J Ma, S Masoodian, DA Starkey, ER Fossum - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In several emerging fields of study such as encryption in optical communications,
determination of the number of photons in an optical pulse is of great importance. Typically …

Review of quanta image sensors for ultralow-light imaging

J Ma, S Chan, ER Fossum - IEEE Transactions on Electron …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The quanta image sensor (QIS) is a photon-counting image sensor that has been
implemented using different electron devices, including impact ionization-gain devices, such …

Radiation tolerance of a single-photon counting complementary metal-oxide semiconductor image sensor

JP Gallagher, L Buntic, W Deng… - Journal of …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present the results of a radiation test program for a 1-megapixel single-photon-counting
and photon-number-resolving CMOS image sensor. The results include pre-and post …

Photon number resolving detection with a single-photon detector and adaptive storage loop

NM Sullivan, B Braverman, J Upham… - New Journal of …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Photon number resolving (PNR) measurements are beneficial or even necessary for many
applications in quantum optics. Unfortunately, PNR detectors are usually large, slow …

Characterizing radiation-tolerant single photon resolving CMOS detectors

JP Gallagher, L Buntic, E Alexani… - X-Ray, Optical, and …, 2024 - spiedigitallibrary.org
NASA seeks to identify habitable exoplanets and explore signatures of life with the
Habitable Worlds Observatory and through a series of missions to Europa. The former …

Optimal threshold design for quanta image sensor

OA Elgendy, SH Chan - IEEE transactions on computational …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quanta image sensor is a binary imaging device envisioned to be the next generation image
sensor after CCD and CMOS. Equipped with a massive number of single photon detectors …

Low bit-depth adcs for multi-bit quanta image sensors

Z Yin, YM Wang, ER Fossum - IEEE journal of solid-state …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 1024× 896 test chip is presented in this article to explore a low-power readout circuit for a
multi-bit quanta image sensor (QIS). Five well-known analog-to-digital converter (ADC) …

Threshold uniformity improvement in 1b quanta image sensor readout circuit

Z Yin, J Ma, S Masoodian, ER Fossum - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
A new readout architecture for single-bit quanta image sensor (QIS) consisting of a
capacitive transimpedance amplifier (CTIA) before a 1-bit quantizer to improve the threshold …

Accurate and efficient 3D analytic ion implantation model based on Legendre polynomials

A Terterian, N Zographos, S Tian, C Zechner… - Materials Science in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Computationally efficient ion implantation modeling has long been essential for the effective
and accurate design of semiconductor devices. Three-dimensional (3D) analytic models are …