Program

Day 1 - Tuesday, June 4, 2024

09:00 Workshop Welcome and Introduction

09:20 Session 1 - SPAD technologies and devices (chair: Myung-Jae Lee, co-chair: Sara Pellegrini)

• R01.1 - Recent advances in SPAD sensor technology: pixel size shrinking and PDE enhancement
  Presenter: Jun Ogi (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation)

• R01.2 - FBK roadmap towards the next-generation of 3D-integrated SiPM and SPAD technologies
  Presenter: Alberto Gola (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK)

• R01.3 - Invited - Rethinking boundaries: 3D integration and advanced packaging as performance drivers
  Presenter: Perceval Coudrain (CEA)

• R01.4 - A 55nm BCDLite® FSI SPAD with Improved NIR Sensitivity and DCR
  Presenter: Francesco Gramuglia (Global Foundries)

14:00 Session 2 - InGaAs/InP SPAD devices (chair: Sara Pellegrini, co-chair: Alberto Tosi)

• R02.1 - Low-noise InGaAs/InP SPAD  with photon detection efficiency exceeding 50% at 1550 nm
  Presenter: Fabio Telesca (Politecnico di Milano)

• R02.2 - 10-μm InGaAsP/InP SPADs for 1064 nm detection with 36% PDP and 118 ps timing jitter
  Presenter: Utku Karaca (EPFL)

16:05 Session 3 - SPAD modeling (chair: Alberto Tosi, co-chair: Myung-Jae Lee)

• R03.1 - Avalanche build-up field and its impact on the SPAD pulse width and inter-pulse-time distributions
  Presenter: Denis Rideau (STMicroelectronics)

• R03.2 - Transient Measurements of Avalanche Dynamics and Quenching in SPADs
  Presenter: Wilfried Uhring (ICube & Univ. Strasbourg)

16:55 Session 4 - Poster session #1 (chair: David Stoppa, co-chair: Claudio Bruschini)

Day 2 - Wednesday, June 5, 2024

8:40 Session 5 - LiDAR (chair: David Stoppa, co-chair: Leonardo Gasparini)

• R05.1 - Invited - Lidar design considerations for self-driving cars
  Presenter: Simon Verghese (Waymo)

• R05.2 - Invited - Developing InP SWIR SPAD arrays for an automotive Geiger-mode lidar
  Presenter: Mark Itzler (Luminar)

• R05.3 - High-speed, Underwater 3D Imaging with an In-Pixel Histogramming SPAD
  Presenter: Istvan Gyongy (University of Edinburgh)

• R05.4 - Invited - CMOS Flash LiDAR Sensors with In-pixel Zoom Histogramming TDC Architectures
  Presenter: Seong-Jin Kim (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology & SolidVUE)

• R05.5 - Comparison of SPAD, SiPM and APD performance for ToF LiDAR application
  Presenter: Andrii Nagai (onsemi)

13:45 Session 6 - Smartphone and edge computing (chair: Robert Henderson, co-chair: Edoardo Charbon)

• R06.1 - Physical and Cost Comparison of Smartphone Laser Autofocus Solutions
  Presenter: Peter Bonanno (Yole)

• R06.2 - A monolithic BSI time-of-flight sensor supporting a resolution of up to 160x120 pixels with on-chip data processing enabling stand-alone or sensor fusion applications
  Presenter: Robert Kappel (ams-OSRAM)

• R06.3 - Invited - A New Vision Chip with SPAD Imaging and Spiking Neural Network Processing
  Presenter: Liyuan Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

15:30 Session 7 - Poster session #2 (chair: Sara Pellegrini, co-chair: Alberto Tosi)

Day 3 - Thursday, June 6, 2024

09:00 Session 8 - SPADs & photonic integrated circuits (chair: Edoardo Charbon, co-chair: Sara Pellegrini)

• R08.1 - Silicon SPAD monolithically integrated with SiON-based photonic circuit
  Presenter: Fabio Acerbi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK)

• R08.2 - Direct coupling of a laser-written photonic integrated circuit to a SPAD array
  Giulio Gualandi (Politecnico di Milano)

10:50 Session 9 - Medical and quantum applications (chair: Claudio Bruschini, co-chair: Robert Henderson)

• R09.1 - Invited - Applications of CMOS SPAD arrays in clinical imaging and spectroscopy
  Presenter: Michael Tanner (Heriot-Watt University)

• R09.2 - Enhancing Chemiluminescence-Detection with Dark-Count Rate Optimization Strategies for SPADs in Conventional CMOS Technologies
  Presenter: Benjamin Saft (IMMS)

• R09.3 - Invited - Quantum imaging with SPAD array cameras
  Presenter: Valerio Pruneri (ICFO)

14:50 Session 10 - Time to Digital Converters (chair: Leonardo Gasparini, co-chair: Claudio Bruschini)

• R10.1 - A PVT-Insensitive Body-Biased Time-to-Digital Converter in 28nm FD-SOI CMOS Technology
  Presenter: Yining Wang (University of Edinburgh)

• R10.2 - Cascaded Vernier Time-to-Digital Converter : Toward Integration in an Array
  Presenter: Guillaume Théberge-Dupuis (Université de Sherbrooke)

15:40 Workshop closing remarks

Day 1 - Tuesday, June 4, 2024

16:55 Session 4 - Poster session #1 (chair: David Stoppa, co-chair: Claudio Bruschini)

• P1.01 - A Guard Ring-Optimized Single-Photon Avalanche Diode with 70% PDP at 420 nm in 55 nm BCD Technology
  Presenter: Hyun-Seung Choi (Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST)

• P1.02 - Back-Illuminated Non-Isolated Single-Photon Avalanche Diode in 110 nm Standard CMOS Image Sensor Technology
  Presenter: Doyoon Eom (Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST)

• P1.03 - Room temperature 96x96 InGaAs/InP SPAD array for SWIR imaging
  Presenter: Pascal Rustige (Fraunhofer HHI)

• P1.04 - New Crosstalk Insight and Characterization Methods in CMOS based SPADs
  Presenter: Julia Kölbel (Elmos Semiconductor SE)

• P1.05 - Test Bench for Characterization of CMOS SPADs
  Presenter: Joo-Hyun Kim (Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST)

• P1.06 - Radiation Damage on SiPM for High Energy Physics Experiments in space missions
  Presenter: Celeste Guerrisi (Politecnico di Bari)

• P1.07 - Glass-free SiPMs with Through Silicon Vias for VUV/NUV light detection
  Presenter: Jacopo Dalmasson (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK)

• P1.08 - Position-Sensitive Silicon Photomultiplier Array with enhanced position reconstruciton by means of a Deep Neural Network
  Presenter: Cyril M Alispach (Université de Genève)

• P1.09 - Fabrication method of SPAD sensor for automotive LiDAR to compensate the process fluctuation by feedforward system
  Presenter: Yoshiaki Tashiro (Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation)

• P1.10 - Extended Dynamic Range SPAD Front-End Using Near-Threshold Inverter-Based Comparator
  Presenter: Maciej Wojtkiewicz (University of Edinburgh)

• P1.11 - A 1.8-µm pitch, 47-ps jitter SPAD Array in 130nm SiGe BiCMOS Process
  Presenter: Feng Liu (EPFL/Microparity)

• P1.12 - Histogram-less SPAD/SiPM-based dTOF imaging  with parallel ML processing
  Presenter: Tommaso Milanese (EPFL)

• P1.13 - Linearized SPAD response for high photon flux and histogram-less d-ToF systems
  Presenter: Alessandro Tontini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK)

• P1.14 - Towards arbitrary photon statistics characterization with realistic SPAD arrays
  Presenter: Niki Di Giano (Politecnico di Milano)

• P1.15 - Count-Free Single-Photon LiDAR with Equi-Depth Histograms: An FPGA Implementation
  Presenter: Hayden T Galante (Portland State University)

• P1.16 - Flash LiDAR for Bathymetry Using a 2D SPAD Array
  Presenter: Eleonoor Bosch (CSEM)

• P1.17 - 40-nm SPAD-Array System for Ultra-Fast Raman Spectroscopy
  Presenter: Henri Haka (Politecnico di Milano)

• P1.18 - Fluorescence Based Multi-Color Two-Dimensional Flow Cytometer Utilizing Masked SPAD Array
  Presenter: Kunihiko Iizuka (University of Tokyo)

• P1.19 - The Single Particle Avalanche Diode concept
  Presenter: Fabrice Retiere (TRIUMF)

• P1.20 - AI-enhanced Non-Line of Sight Imaging
  Presenter: Pierfrancesco Ulpiani (Leonardo SpA)

Day 2 - Wednesday, June 5, 2024

15:30 Session 7 - Poster session #2 (chair: Sara Pellegrini, co-chair: Alberto Tosi)

• P2.01 - An Optimized SPAD Equivalent-Circuit Model
  Presenter: Eo-Jin Kim (Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST)

• P2.02 - TCAD simulation of the inefficiency of a Single Electron Bipolar Avalanche Transistor (SEBAT) coupled to a THz detector
  Presenter: Abderrezak Boughedda (Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK)

• P2.03 - SPAD traceable detection efficiency measurement at INRIM
  Presenter: Alice Meda (INRiM)

• P2.04 - Traceable characterisation of free-space and fibre-coupled single-photon avalanche diodes
  Presenter: Luke Arabskyj (National Physical Laboratory)

• P2.05 - Front-Side Photon Detection improvement of SPAD integrated in FD-SOI CMOS Technology thanks to STI patterning
  Presenter: Francis Calmon (INSA Lyon - INL)

• P2.06 - NIR–Sensitivity Enhancement of a Back-Illuminated Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Through Backside Scattering Patterns
  Presenter: Seyoung Yook (Korea Institute of Science and Technology - KIST)

• P2.07 - Investigation of a novel zinc-diffusion process for the fabrication of InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche diodes
  Presenter: Andreas Woerl (Fraunhofer IAF)

• P2.08 - A Backside-Illuminated SiPM Array with High NIR PDE for Automotive LIDAR Applications
  Presenter: Tomer Leitner (onsemi)

• P2.09 - Photon-to-Digital Converter Development:  3D Integration Progress and Characterization Platform
  Presenter: Serge Charlebois (Université de Sherbrooke)

• P2.10 - Conceiving and designing high-performance TCSPC systems  for biological and quantum imaging
  Presenter: Serena Farina (Politecnico of Milan)

• P2.11 - Beyond pile-up limits in Time Correlated Single Photon Counting: a new approach
  Presenter: Giulia Acconcia (Politecnico of Milan)

• P2.12 - An Asynchronous Peak Tracking Method for dToF LiDAR Histograms
  Presenter: Yiyang Liu (University of Edinburgh)

• P2.13 - Use of Switched Capacitors in timing-based  SPAD Image Sensors
  Presenter: Maarten Kuijk (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

• P2.14 - Utilizing Switched Capacitors in SPAD-Based Pixel for dToF
  Presenter: Ayman Morsy (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

• P2.15 - SPAD LiDAR with RADAR Target Prediction
  Presenter: Andre Henschke (Fraunhofer IMS)

• P2.16 - Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Ophthalmoscope: A Theoretical Study
  Presenter: Jakub Nedbal (Occuity)

• P2.17 - Red-Enhanced SPAD Sensor with 150-ps Gating for FLIM
  Presenter: Augusto Carimatto (Piimaging)

• P2.18 - ANDESPix: A Digital SiPM for Muon Detectors
  Presenter: Alexander F. Elsenhans (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT)

• P2.19 - Ubiquitous Perception with Single-Photon Camera
  Presenter: Sebastian Bauer (Ubicept)

• P2.20 - Clinical translation of an early-photon imaging system for safe placement of feeding tubes
  Presenter: András Kufcsák (Heriot-Watt University)