The digital silicon photomultiplier — Principle of operation and intrinsic detector performance

By T. Frach, G. Prescher, C. Degenhardt, Rik de Gruyter, Anja Schmitz, Rob Ballizany. 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2009

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation, Radiation

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Citations in the corpus

• The digital Silicon Photomultiplier — A novel sensor for the detection of scintillation light (2009, background): “2 Optical crosstalk was not taken into account here, since it only contributes a few percent, see [1].”
• Scaleable Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Structures in Nanometer CMOS Technology (2011, background): “fast electronic processing on a single complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) die have recently become commercially available [1].”
• Progress in Quenching Circuits for Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (2010, neutral): “Purely active AQCs are rarely used at present, except in rare cases [26], [27].”
• Recent developments in time-of-flight PET (2016, methodology): “It is based on very new digital SiPM (dSiPM) photodetectors [44] developed and put into practice by Philips Digital Photon Counting in 2009.”
• SPAD Figures of Merit for Photon-Counting, Photon-Timing, and Imaging Applications: A Review (2016, background): “[50]–[57], which can overcome some limitation of SPADs,”
• Understanding and simulating SiPMs (2019, methodology): “In a SiPM it is possible to count each fired SPAD separately: (i) in a digital fashion (digital SiPM), where each SPAD is connected to its own readout electronic circuit [6,9] or (ii) by the amplitude (or charge) of the sum of the single SPAD signals like in an analog SiPM [1,2,10].”