Single-molecule techniques in biophysics: a review of the progress in methods and applications

H Miller, Z Zhou, J Shepherd… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Single-molecule biophysics has transformed our understanding of biology, but also of the
physics of life. More exotic than simple soft matter, biomatter lives far from thermal …

Full waveform LiDAR for adverse weather conditions

AM Wallace, A Halimi, GS Buller - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present and discuss the case for full waveform pixel and image acquisition and
processing to enable LiDAR sensors to penetrate and reconstruct 3D surface maps through …

CMOS time-to-digital converters for biomedical imaging applications

R Scott, W Jiang, MJ Deen - IEEE Reviews in Biomedical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) are high-performance mixed-signal circuits capable of
timestam** events with sub-gate delay resolution. As a result of their high-performance, in …

A CMOS SPAD imager with collision detection and 128 dynamically reallocating TDCs for single-photon counting and 3D time-of-flight imaging

C Zhang, S Lindner, IM Antolovic, M Wolf, E Charbon - Sensors, 2018 - mdpi.com
Per-pixel time-to-digital converter (TDC) architectures have been exploited by single-photon
avalanche diode (SPAD) sensors to achieve high photon throughput, but at the expense of …

Gated SPAD arrays for single-photon time-resolved imaging and spectroscopy

E Conca, I Cusini, F Severini, R Lussana… - IEEE Photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present the architecture and the experimental characterization of an
improved version of a previously developed 32× 32 Single Photon Avalanche Diodes …

Custom-technology single-photon avalanche diode linear detector array for underwater depth imaging

A Maccarone, G Acconcia, U Steinlehner, I Labanca… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
We present an optical depth imaging system suitable for highly scattering underwater
environments. The system used the time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) …

37ps-precision time-resolving active quenching circuit for high-performance single photon avalanche diodes

G Acconcia, M Ghioni, I Rech - IEEE Photonics Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-resolved imaging by means of single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) has achieved
widespread interest in recent years, especially since technological progress has opened the …

Readout architectures for high efficiency in time-correlated single photon counting experiments—Analysis and review

A Cominelli, G Acconcia, P Peronio… - IEEE Photonics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) has become the technique
of choice in many life science analyses, where fast and faint luminous signals are recorded …

High-accuracy and video-rate lifetime extraction from time correlated single photon counting data on a graphical processing unit

A Margara, P Peronio, G Acconcia, G Cugola… - Review of Scientific …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) are a powerful alternative to central processing units,
especially for data-parallel, video-rate processing of large data volumes. In the complex …

Fully digital routing logic for single-photon avalanche diode arrays in highly efficient time-resolved imaging

A Cominelli, G Acconcia, M Ghioni… - Optical Engineering, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) is a powerful optical technique, which
permits recording fast luminous signals with picosecond precision. Unfortunately, given its …