SPMMicro

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sensL’s SPMMicro series is a High Gain APD and encapsulates sensL’s world-leading APD technology in a variety of miniature, easy to use, low cost packages. The SPMMicro detector series is suitable for applications requiring high sensitivity, low noise detection in the visible to near IR range.

SPMMicro: Low cost high gain silicon photomultipliers

The SPMMicro series is a solid-state detector sensitive to single photons. The detector consists of an array of Geiger Mode Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs), each individually coupled to integrated quench electronics. It is a type of detector commonly referred to as a Silicon Photomultiplier (SPM). The SPMMicro combines high gain and quantum efficiency characteristics comparable to Photomultiplier Tube (PMT) detectors with the additional benefits of silicon technology such as compact size, magnetic field insensitivity, low operating voltage, robustness, and tolerance to light overexposure.

sensL offers two detector sizes for the SPMMicro series, a circular 1mm diameter and a square 3mm x 3mm active area. A variety of microcell sizes are available to suit varying customer requirements for dynamic range and detection efficiency.

The SPMMicro series detectors come in a variety of pin package formats according to footprint requirements, levels of hermeticity, and cooling. These include glass/metal sealed transistor header package types such as TO46, TO5 and TO8 as well as ceramic packages which are TO5 pin compatible. In our ceramic packages the detector is mounted on a ceramic header and covered with a clear epoxy resin. This is ideal for applications that require excellent coupling to scintillators.

Applications
  • Analytical Instruments: FLIM
  • Biological Sensors
  • Scanning Microarrays
  • DNA Biochips/Sequencing
  • Proteomics/Protein Biochips
  • Point-of-Use Biological Agent Detection
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • Nuclear Radiation Detection
  • Homeland Security
  • Flow Cytometry
  • Range Finding/Targeting/LIDAR
  • Food Monitoring and Inspection

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