From Event: SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2018
This paper reports on the state of the art of the Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) being developed by Dartmouth. The QIS is a photon-counting image sensor. Experimental 1Mpixel devices have been implemented in a modified backside-illuminated stacked CMOS image sensor process. Without the use of avalanche multiplicative gain, the sensors have achieved room temperature average read noise of 0.22e- rms (analog readout) permitting photon counting, and over 1000fps readout at under 20mW total power dissipation including pads (single-bit digital readout).
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W. Deng, D. Starkey, S. Masoodian, J. Ma, and E. R. Fossum, "Quanta image sensors: photon-number-resolving megapixel image sensors at room temperature without avalanche gain," Proc. SPIE 10659, Advanced Photon Counting Techniques XII, 1065902 (Presented at SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging: April 18, 2018; Published: 14 May 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2309631.