Silicon-on-insulator technology for bioluminescence imaging and application to a switching photodetector

Author

Sallin, Denis ; Abdo, Nisrina ; Koukab, Adil ; Estribeau, Magali ; Magnan, Pierre ; Kayal, Maher

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. Eng. (IEL), Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2015

Firstpage

511

Lastpage

514

Abstract

This paper analyzes some advantages of Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) based photodetectors for bioluminescence imaging. It shows that SOI based sensors not only solve the bulk carriers problem, it can also act as a very selective spectral filter by acting as a resonant cavity, which is useful in application with a very narrow spectrum of interest, such as bioluminescence imaging. Then, the authors discuss the application of those findings and the electrical advantages of SOI for a new kind of switching photodetector, the Hybrid MOS-PN device and their advantages in terms of dark current minimization.

Keywords

MIS devices; biological techniques; bioluminescence; cavity resonators; optical filters; photodetectors; silicon-on-insulator; SOI based photodetector; SOI electrical advantage; Si; bioluminescence imaging; bulk carrier problem; dark current minimization; hybrid MOS-PN device; resonant cavity; selective spectral filter; silicon-on-insulator technology; switching photodetector application; Bioluminescence; CMOS integrated circuits; Detectors; Imaging; Photodetectors; Silicon; Bioluminescence; SOI; Silicon Photodetector;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits & Systems (MIXDES), 2015 22nd International Conference

Conference_Location

Torun

Print_ISBN

978-8-3635-7806-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIXDES.2015.7208574

Filename

7208574