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SensL USA
Mountain View, CA
Tel: +1 650 210 9110

SensL Ireland
Blackrock, Cork
Tel: +353 21 435 0442

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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.

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 overexposure

SensL offers two detector sizes for the SPMMicro series, a circular 1mm diameter and a square 3mm x 3mm active area. Two SPM design options are available where the number and size of the microcell in the SPM are varied for PDE optimization and optimal Dynamic Range.

These 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 (TO46, TO5, TO8) and ceramic packages (TO5 pin compatible) where the detector is mounted on a ceramic and covered with a clear epoxy resin for applications that applications that require excellent coupling to scintillators as an example.

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Features

• High gain silicon APD (10⁶)
• Low bias voltages (30V)
• Fast recovery time (<50ns)
• Dark count rate (0.5-10MHz)
• Superior S/N to normal APDs
• Not damaged by excess/ambient light
• Large area 1mm² and 9mm² options
• Minimal electronics requirement
• Compact, rugged, and stable
• Insensitive to magnetic fields
• Transimpedance Amplifier and integrated power supply (option)

Applications

• 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