June 13th – 15th 2022
The International SPAD Sensor Workshop focuses on the study, modeling, design, fabrication, and characterization of SPAD sensors. The workshop welcomes all researchers, practitioners, and educators interested in SPADs, SPAD imagers, and associated applications, not only in imaging but also in other fields.
Steering Committee
- David Stoppa AMS, Switzerland
- Sara Pellegrini ST Microelectronics, United Kingdom
- Robert K Henderson Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
- Alberto Tosi Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Claudio Bruschini EPFL AQUA, Switzerland
- Edoardo Charbon EPFL AQUA, Switzerland
Workshop Programme
| Monday 13th June 2022 |
| CEST 8:15 – 08:30 Welcome and Introduction |
| David Stoppa, Sony Europe B.V. and Verena Vescoli, ams-OSRAM |
| Session 1: SPAD Technologies |
| Session Chair: Sara Pellegrini, STMicroelectronics |
| Session Co-Chair: Robert Henderson, University of Edinburgh |
| CEST 08:30 – 09:00 Scalable Backside-Illuminated Charge-Focusing Silicon SPADs with Enhanced Near-Infrared Sensitivity |
| Edward Van Sieleghem, IMEC |
| CEST 09:00 – 09:30 A Back Side Illuminated 3D-Stacked SPAD in 45nm Technology |
| Georg Roehrer, ams-OSRAM |
| CEST 9:30 – 10:00 New SPAD dspc – Third Generation |
| Daniel Gäbler, X-Fab |
| CEST 10:00 – 10:30 Back-Illuminated SPADs in Stacked 40nm CIS Technology |
| Myung-Jae Lee, Korea Institute of Science and Technology |
| CEST 10:30 – 10:45 Break |
| CEST 10:45 – 11:15 A Challenge for 3μm SPAD Pixel Using Embedded Metal Contact on Deep Trench Pixel Isolation |
| Jun Ogi, Sony Semiconductors Solutions Corporation |
| CEST 11:15 – 11:45 Multi-Megapixel 3D-Stacked Charge Focusing SPAD Image Sensors |
| Kazu Morimoto, Canon |
| CEST 11:45 – 12:15 Sherbrooke Frontside Illumination SPAD Architecture and Preliminary Performances |
| Jean-François Pratte, Université de Sherbrooke |
| CEST 12:15 – 13:05 Lunch and Sponsor Talks |
| Sponsor Talks |
| Session Chair: David Stoppa, Sony Europe BV |
| CEST 12:15 – 12:40 SPAD requirements from consumer electronics to automotive |
| Chao Zhang, Shenzhen Adaps Photonics Technology Co., Ltd |
| CEST 12:40 – 13:05 Enabling quantum technologies through photonic sensing solutions |
| Martin Felle, ID Quantique |
| Session 2: SPAD Technologies and Modeling |
| Session Chair: Alberto Tosi, Politecnico di Milano |
| Session Co-Chair: Claudio Bruschini, EPFL |
| CEST 13:05 – 13:35 Characterization and modeling of displacement damage in CMOS SPAD sensors |
| Lucio Pancheri, University of Trento |
| CEST 13:35 – 14:05 Noise Issues of SPADs in Standard Silicon Technologies |
| Jamal Deen, McMaster University |
| CEST 14:05 – 14:35 Making Event-driven and SPAD-based Imagers Converge: A 64×64 110nm CMOS Multi-mode Vision Sensor |
| Rubén Gómez Merchán,, University of Seville |
| CEST 14:35 – 15:05 Towards a new generation of SiPMs for the 10ps Time-of-Flight PET challenge |
| Paul Lecoq, Multiwave Metacrystal SA, Polytechnic Universit Valencia |
| CEST 15:05 – 15:35 SPAD advanced modeling: From TCAD to SPICE simulation |
| Denis Rideau, STMicroelectronics |
| CEST 15:35 – 15:50 Break |
| CEST 15:50 – 16:20 A low-power high-dynamic-range SPAD for sustainable sensing |
| Sara Pellegrini and Bruce Rae, STMicroelectronics |
| Session 3: Computational Imaging |
| Session Chair: Edoardo Charbon, EPFL |
| Session Co-Chair: David Stoppa, Sony Europe BV |
| CEST 16:20 – 16:50 Computer vision, one photon at a time |
| Mohit Gupta, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| CEST 16:50 – 17:20 Quantum imaging with SPAD arrays |
| Daniele Faccio, University of Glasgow |
| CEST 17:20 – 17:50 Wearable near-infrared, time-domain diffuse optical tomography system for functional brain imaging |
| Ken Shepard, Columbia University |
| Tuesday 14th June 2022 |
| Session 4: Depth Sensing |
| Session Chair: Edoardo Charbon, EPFL |
| Session Co-Chair: David Stoppa, Sony Europe BV |
| CEST 08:30 – 09:00 Precise Distance Measurement with Thick SPADs |
| Michael Hofbauer, TU Wien |
| CEST 09:00 – 09:30 A 64 × 64 SPAD-Based Indirect Time-of-Flight Image Sensor with a depth range of 50m |
| Byungchoul Park, Yonsei University |
| CEST 09:30 – 10:00 SPAD based Spot dToF system |
| Chao Zhang, Adaps Photonics Technology Co., Ltd |
| CEST 10:00 – 10:30 Design, fabrication and testing of an >10k pixel BSI CSPAD array |
| Christian Walk, Fraunhofer IMS |
| CEST 10:30 – 10:45 Break |
| CEST 10:45 – 11:15 Direct time-of-flight imaging with in-pixel peak tracking |
| Istvan Gyongy, University of Edinburgh |
| CEST 11:15 – 11:45 A short pulse high power laser driver for SPAD TOF systems |
| Jed Hurwitz, Analog Devices |
| CEST 11:45 – 12:15 A 1.2K dots direct Time-of-Flight 3D Imaging System with on-chip depth map computation, in 45/22nm 3D-stacked BSI SPAD CMOS |
| Pierre-Yves Talod, ams-OSRAM |
| CEST 12:15 – 13:05 Lunch and Sponsor Talks |
| Sponsor Talks |
| Session Chair: Claudio Bruschini, EPFL |
| CEST 12:15 – 12:40 Sense the Wonder |
| David Stoppa, Sony Europe BV |
| CEST 12:40 – 13:05 Tailored optical properties for SPADs within a standard CMOS process |
| Alexander Zimmer, X-FAB Silicon Foundries Global Services GmbH |
| Session 4: Depth Sensing |
| Session Chair: David Stoppa, Sony Europe BV |
| Session Co-Chair: Edoardo Charbon, EPFL |
| CEST 13:05 – 13:35 Fast-gated 16×16 SPAD array with on-chip 6 ps TDCs for non-line-of-sight imaging |
| Simone Riccardo, Politecnico di Milano |
| (Speaker Local Time CEST) |
| CEST 13:35 – 14:05 Models of Direct Time-of-Flight Sensor Precision with Implications for On-Chip Histogram Processing |
| Lucas Koerner, University of St. Thomas |
| Session 5: Quantum Applications |
| Session Chair: Robert Henderson, University of Edinburgh |
| Session Co-Chair: Alberto Tosi, Politecnico di Milano |
| CEST 14:05 – 14:35 Fast Quantum Ghost imaging with SPADs: from basics to experimental validation with smart sensor architectures |
| Massimo Gandola, FBK |
| CEST 14:35 – 15:05 Correlation plenoptic imaging based on SPAD technology |
| Milena D’Angelo, Università di Bari |
| CEST 15:05 – 15:20 Break |
| CEST 15:20 – 15:50 EURAMET European Metrology Network for Quantum Technologies: Quantum Metrology and Single Photon Detector calibration |
| Ivo Degiovanni, INRIM |
| CEST 15:50 – 16:20 Single Photon Detection for Quantum Communication |
| Hugo Zbinden, University of Geneva |
| CEST 16:20 – 16:50 Event-driven SPAD arrays for quantum imaging and microscopy |
| Federica Villa, Politecnico di Milano |
| Wednesday 15th June 2022 |
| Session 6: Emerging Technologies and Long Wavelength SPADs |
| Session Chair: Sara Pellegrini, STMicroelectronics |
| Session Co-Chair: Alberto Tosi, Politecnico di Milano |
| CEST 09:00 – 09:30 A 7.5-ps, 60% PDP low-noise SPAD fabricated in CMOS technology |
| Francesco Gramuglia, EPFL |
| CEST 09:30 – 10:00 Design and Fabrication of Solid-State Photomultiplier (SSPM) composed of multi-pixel InGaAs SPAD |
| Chan-Yong Park, Wooriro Co Ltd |
| CEST 10:00 – 10:30 Silicon Photomultipliers in Optical Wireless Communications: Results and Future Prospects |
| Steve Collins, Oxford University |
| CEST 10:30 – 11:00 Mid-infrared Single-photon Up-conversion Imaging |
| Heping Zeng, East China Normal University |
| CEST 11:00 – 11:15 Break |
| Session 7: Spectroscopy and Sensing |
| Session Chair: Claudio Bruschini, EPFL |
| Session Co-Chair: Robert Henderson, University of Edinburgh |
| CEST 11:15 – 11:45 High-speed, CMOS, full chemical fingerprint Raman spectroscopy sensor utilizing 1536 x 8 SPAD array |
| Jussi-Pekka Jansson, Oulu University |
| CEST 11:45 – 12:15 Cranking up the speed in spontaneous Raman imaging with SPAD technology |
| Hilton B. de Aguiar, CNRS/Sorbonne |
| CEST 12:15 – 12:45 Heralded spectroscopy with a linear SPAD array spectrometer |
| Dan Oron, Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Sponsor Talks |
| Session Chair: Sara Pellegrini, STMicroelectronics |
| CEST 12:45 – 13:10 Sensing in a new Light |
| Verena Vescoli, ams-OSRAM AG |
| Session 7: Spectroscopy and Sensing |
| Session Chair: Robert Henderson, University of Edinburgh |
| Session Co-Chair: Claudio Bruschini, EPFL |
| CEST 13:35 – 14:05 Imaging deep-tissue blood flow via parallelized diffuse correlation spectroscopy |
| Roarke Horstmeyer, Duke University |
| CEST 14:05 – 14:35 Emerging Clinical Applications of Fluorescence Using SPADs |
| David Birch, Horiba/University of Strathclyde |
| CEST 14:35 – 15:05 Deciphering laser speckle statistics of turbid media to measure deep tissue blood flow using single photon counting detectors: clinical applications |
| Turgut Durduran, ICFO |
| CEST 15:05 – 15:35 SPAD Imagers for Subsurface Fluorescence-guided Surgical Navigation |
| Petr Brůža, Dartmouth Engineering |