Completed project
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MEGAFRAME’s long-term goal is to bring single photon imaging technology to an advanced low-cost deep-submicron CMOS platform, so that massive arrays of single photon detectors can coexist with and interface to large networks of parallel digital processing units on the same chip. The target fields are biology, physics, and medical imaging. However, any disciplines requiring time-resolved ultra-fast optical sensors are prime candidates.
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