On May 25^th, 2021 at 04:00 pm Giulia Acconcia, Assistant Professor at DEIB Department, will hold a speech titled “Getting fast in single photon measurements: new challenges and ideas with Single Photon Avalanche Diodes” during the online seminar ”SPAD Applications” organized by CISMA.

Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are photodetectors that can not only detect single photons, but they can also mark their times of arrival with picosecond precision. These peculiar features opened the way to the successful exploitation of SPADs in a wide variety of applications, like fluorescence lifetime imaging, Earth atmosphere profiling, quantum key distribution and many others. Nowadays, achieving high speed with SPADs is still an open challenge. In this webinar, I will discuss new architectures, ideas, and developed electronics and systems to overcome long-held speed limitations both in photon counting and photon timing.

Registration to attend the online event available at this link

About the speaker:

Dr. Giulia Acconcia received her Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering and her Master’s Degree in Electronics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She holds a PhD in Information Technology and is currently a Junior Researcher in the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria at Politecnico di Milano. Her main research interests concern the design and development of integrated circuits required to extract timing information with extremely high performance from Single Photon Avalanche Diodes and to achieve high speed with these sensors in both counting and timing applications. She is involved in many aspects of SPAD-based systems, including modelling, front end design, module development and applications.