The integration of novel materials and devices with electronics to sense a range of physical properties such as heat, light, sound, radiation or chemical signatures such as pathogens or gases. This also includes integrating sensors with CMOS to increase their functionality (More than Moore) which involves both design and technology development.
Examples include:
- CMOS Single Photon Avalanche Diode arrays for imaging and spectroscopy
- Metal-polymer nanocomposite sensors
- Nanoband electrochemical sensing
- Submillimetre Common User Bolometer Array (SCUBA-2)
- Electrodes for sensing in harsh environments (550oC)
Research Projects
- TotalPhoton: A Total Photon Camera for Molecular Imaging of Live Cells
- SPADnet: Fully networked, digital components for photon-starved Biomedical Imaging
- Multiplexed multiphoton fluorescence lifetime microscopy: Real time 3D imaging of protein-protein interactions by FRET
- Development of an Instrument for Rapidly Detecting Cryptosporidium in Drinking Water
- Ultra-Parallel Visible Light Communications (UP-VLC)
- Million frame per second, time-correlated single photon camera (MEGAFRAME)
- PROTEUS: Multiplexed 'Touch and Tell' Optical Molecular Sensing and Imaging
- HYPIX: Hybrid organic semiconductor/gallium nitride/CMOS smart pixel arrays
- Metal-polymer nanocomposite sensors
CMOS Sensors and Systems Group
Research Facilities
- Time-resolved detectors and lasers laboratory (part funded by ST Microelectronics)
- Motorised rail for time-of-flight sensor characterisation
- SMC for fabricating sensor technologyand postprocessing CMOS
