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15 - General Engineering
University of Edinburgh (joint submission with Heriot-Watt University)
Scaleable Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Structures in Nanometer CMOS Technology
This is the first reported SPAD detector in a nanometer-scale CMOS process. It has the smallest single-detector area, the lowest noise and the highest sensitivity. ST Microelectronics (Lindsay Grant, email available) filed a patent application (US2012205731) and based two major product developments on this detector. ST Microelectronics has made an investment of £450k for follow-on research in ERPE. These detectors were key to the £1.6M EU FP6 MegaFrame project (029217), securing the £3.5M EU FP7 SPADnet project (257914). Biophotonics cancer research is being conducted with King's College through a joint £640k BBSRC project (BB/I022074/1), based on cameras employing these detectors.