Towards 10ps SPTR and Ultra-Low DCR in SiPMs Through the Combination of Microlenses and Photonic Crystals

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Towards 10ps SPTR and Ultra-Low DCR in SiPMs Through the Combination of Microlenses and Photonic Crystals

Conference Paper (2018)

Author(s)

Francesco Gramuglia (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Myung Jae Lee (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Esteban Venialgo (TU Delft - (OLD)Applied Quantum Architectures)

Claudio Bruschini (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

Edoardo Charbon (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

SPAD Collimator Scintillator Photonic crystal Low noise Low Jitter MD-SiPM Microlens

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https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2017.8532951 Final published version

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Publication Year

2018

Language

English

Article number

8532951

ISBN (electronic)

978-1-5386-2282-7

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Abstract

Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs), which emerged as all solid state, MRI compatible alternative to PMTs, can provide high miniaturization and increased timing performance. Large effort has been spent in improving the figures of merit of such devices (e.g. jitter, timing resolution, sensitivity, noise, etc.). In this paper we propose a novel approach relying on the combination of photonic crystals with microlens arrays, integrated on top of each SPAD cell in the SiPM, to collimate and focus the light generated by a scintillator, in order to improve the overall timing performance of the system so as to approach the 10ps target, while at the same time reducing the noise floor (Dark Count Rate).