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US07858917B2 Digital photon-counting geiger-mode avalanche photodiode solid-state monolithic intensity imaging focal-plane with scalable readout circuitry
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数字光子计数盖格模式雪崩光电二极管固态单片强度成像焦平面与可扩展读出电路
- 专利标题: Digital photon-counting geiger-mode avalanche photodiode solid-state monolithic intensity imaging focal-plane with scalable readout circuitry
- 专利标题(中): 数字光子计数盖格模式雪崩光电二极管固态单片强度成像焦平面与可扩展读出电路
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申请号: US10836896申请日: 2004-04-30
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公开(公告)号: US07858917B2公开(公告)日: 2010-12-28
- 发明人: Alvin Stern , Brian F. Aull , Bernard B. Kosicki , Robert K. Reich , Bradley J. Felton , David C. Shaver , Andrew H. Loomis , Douglas J. Young
- 申请人: Alvin Stern , Brian F. Aull , Bernard B. Kosicki , Robert K. Reich , Bradley J. Felton , David C. Shaver , Andrew H. Loomis , Douglas J. Young
- 申请人地址: US MA Cambridge
- 专利权人: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 当前专利权人: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 当前专利权人地址: US MA Cambridge
- 代理机构: Gauthier & Connors LLP
- 主分类号: G01J1/44
- IPC分类号: G01J1/44 ; H01J40/14 ; H03F3/08
摘要:
A photon-counting Geiger-mode avalanche photodiode intensity imaging array includes an array of pixels, each having an avalanche photodiode. A pixel senses an avalanche event and stores, in response to the sensed avalanche event, a single bit digital value therein. An array of accumulators are provided such that each accumulator is associated with a pixel. A row decoder circuit addresses a pixel row within the array of pixels. A bit sensing circuit converts a precharged capacitance into a digital value during read operations.
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