Jean-François Pratte

Prix et distinctions

• 2018 IEEE NPSS Early Career Award - International recognition - For Spearheading the Development of per Pixel Picosecond Timing with Single Photon Avalanche Diodes Three-Dimensionally Integrated to Custom Readout Circuits. IEEE Nuclear Plasma Science Society. (Prize / Award).
• CMC Microelectronics TEXPO Componentware, National recognition. Canadian Microelectronics Corporation. (Distinction).

Financement

• Contract. (Awarded). Co-investigator. 3D Digital photon conversion and processing for high resolution, fast neutron radiography. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL US DOE). Research contract. 1 000 000 $. (2023-2026)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. The Global Argon Dark Matter Program - DEAP-3600, DarkSide-20k and ARGO. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). SAP Project. 7 878 000 $. (2023-2026)
• Contract. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Confidentiel. Excelitas Technologies. 1 700 000 $. (2022-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Photon to Digital Converters with Picoseconds Single Photon Timing Resolution. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery Grant Program. 140 000 $. (2020-2025)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. 4 Dimensional Digital Detector (4D3). Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). SAP Project. 800 000 $. (2023-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. The nEXO Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Subatomic Physics - Project. 2 790 000 $. (2022-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Wavefront sensing to improve quantum sensing. National Research Council Canada (NRC) (Ottawa, ON). CSTIP. 874 000 $. (2022-2025)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Enabling the search for neutrinoless double-beta decays in Xe-136 with nEXO. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). IF2020 (IF10). 16 583 801 $. (2020-2024)
• Grant. (Under Review). Co-applicant. Infrastructure for the continued development of the argon dark matter program: DarkSide-20k and ARGO. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). IF2022 (IF11). 19 799 423 $. (2023-2024)
• Grant. (Under Review). Collaborator. Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with nEXO at SNOLAB. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). IF2022 (IF11). 24 437 500 $. (2023-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Enabling technologies for the quantum Internet. Institut Quantique Projects Funding. Internal project competition. 802 000 $. (2021-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. Table-Top Particle Physics. Institut Quantique Projects Funding. Internal project competition. 861 000 $. (2021-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. Facility for Development of Noble Liquid Detectors and Optical Readout for Subatomic Physics and Particle Astrophysics. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Innovation Fund (IF9). 9 225 000 $. (2018-2024)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-investigator. ARGO - Development of next-generation argon dark matter search. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Subatomic Physics. 420 000 $. (2021-2023)
• Contract. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Photon-to-Digital Converters for Neutron Imaging Instruments. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL US DOE). Research contract. 387 172 $. (2021-2023)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. The DarkSide-20k Dark Matter Detector. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery subatomic physics - project. 780 000 $. (2021-2023)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. From Quantum Science to Quantum Technology. Tri-Agency. Canada First Research Excellence Fund - CFREF. 33 600 000 $. (2015-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. The Enriched Xenon Observatory Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay with nEXO. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Subatomic Physics. 1 432 000 $. (2020-2022)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. 3D digital Silicon Photomultiplier for Quantum Key Distribution. Institut Quantique Projects Funding. Internal project competition. 140 000 $. (2018-2022)
• Grant. (Declined). Co-applicant. Cutting edge single particle detector probes. McDonald Institute (Queens U. CFREF). Frontier Research Venture Fund Program. 84 103 $. (2020-2021)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Centre d'excellence en systèmes intelligents intégrés de l'Université de Sherbrooke. University of Sherbrooke. Reconnaissance des centres de recherche de l'Université de Sherbrooke. 230 000 $. (2016-2020)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Applicant. Towards high efficiency single VUV photon detectors. Canada First Research Excellence Fund - CFREF. McDonald Institute Frontier Research Venture Fund program. 84 000 $. (2018-2020)
• Contract. (Declined). Co-investigator. A broadband single photon detector for enhanced arctic air surveillance. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC). DRDC Call for Proposal 2016. 2 999 245 $. (2017-2020)
• Contract. (Declined). Principal Investigator. Enabling Single Photon Imaging Technologies for Underwater Artic Surveillance. Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC). DRDC Call for Proposal 2016. 5 998 848 $. (2017-2020)
• Grant. (Declined). Co-investigator. Heterogeneous Integration of High-Density Analog Crossbar for Advanced Data Processing. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects. 565 000 $. (2016-2020)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Institut quantique: A collaborative research facility to accelerate quantum innovation. Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Innovation Fund 2017. 13 110 430 $. (2017-2020)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Silicon interposer prototyping for nEXO. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Research Tools and Instruments Cat. 2 & 3. 209 000 $. (2019-2020)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. The Enriched Xenon Observatory search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery subatomic physics - project. 4 444 000 $. (2017-2020)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Développement de technologie de la microélectronique pour le calcul de haute performance pour des applications centralisées et distribuées. Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS). Centre de Collaboration MiQro Innovation. Mitacs Accélération. 450 000 $. (2016-2019)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. QuMOS - Scalable Microelectronics System for Quantum Computer (Plateforme microélectronique pour un ordinateur quantique extensible). Canada First Research Excellence Fund. 170 000 $. (2016-2018)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Qmag - Quantum Device for Magnetic Field Anomalies Measurement (Dispositif quantique de détection d'anomalies de champ magnétique). Canada First Research Excellence Fund - CFREF. 151 300 $. (2016-2018)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Advanced CMOS readout for Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array for sub 10 ps single photon timing resolution (1603CS-ICSSHSR4). Queen's University. CMC Microsystems - request for manufacturing. 9 400 $. (2016-2016)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Circuits intégrés pour conception d'un scanner TEP et TEP-TDM (ICFSHLN8 ICFSHFE4 1501CFb). Queen's University. CMC Microsystems - request for manufacturing. 46 872 $. (2015-2016)
• Grant. (Completed). Principal Investigator. Advanced front-end for high timing precision measurements with SPAD (1503CS-ICSSHSR3). Queen's University. CMC Microsystems - request for manufacturing. 6 345 $. (2015-2015)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Packaging of the LabPET II detectors. Queen's University. CMC Microsystems - request for manufacturing. 1 755 $. (2014-2015)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-applicant. Institut Interdisciplinaire d'Innovation Technologique. Fonds Institutionnel de Recherche de l'Université de Sherbrooke. Programme interne de financement des infrastructures de recherche. 196 755 $. (2012-2015)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Charge sensitive preamplifier for computed tomography (CMOSP18 ICFSHLN6). (2010-2010)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Improved linearity charge sensitive preamplifier (CMOSP18 ICFSHLN5). (2009-2009)
• Grant. (Completed). Co-investigator. Test circuits for a 64 channel DAQ based on TOT for PET (CMOSP18 ICFSHAC1). (2009-2009)

Publications

Articles de revue

• B.G. Lenardo et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2022). Development of a 127Xe calibration source for nEXO. Journal of Instrumentation 17 P07028. (Published).
• G. Gallina, Y. Guan, F. Retiere, G. Cao, A. Bolotnikov, I. Kotov, S. Rescia et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2022). Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO. The European Physical Journal C (Submitted).
• J. Asaadi, D. Baxter, K. K. Berggren, D. Braga, S. A. Charlebois, C. Chang, A. Dragone, A. Drlica-Wagner, C. O. Escobar, J. Estrada, F. Fahim, M. Febbraro, G. Fernandez Moroni, S. Holland, T. Hossbach, S. Koppell, C. Leitz, A. Magnoni, B. A. Mazin, J.-F. Pratte, B. Rauscher, D. Rodrigues, L. Shen, M. Sofo-Haro, J. Tiffenberg, J. Turner, L. Rota, C. J. Kenney, F. Vachon, G. Wang. (2022). Photon counting from the vacuum ultraviolet to the short wavelength infrared using semiconductor and superconducting technologies. arXiv:2203.12542 [physics.ins-det] (Published).
• S. Parent*, F. Vachon, V. Gauthier*, S. Lamoureux*, A. Paquette*, J. Deschamps*, T. Rossignol, N. Roy, P. Arsenault*, H Dautet, S. Charlebois and J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Wafer-level Characterization and Monitoring Platform for Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes. IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (Submitted).
• J.-F. Pratte, F. Nolet*, S. Parent*, F. Vachon*, N. Roy, T. Rossignol, K. Deslandes*, H. Dautet, R. Fontaine, S.A. Charlebois. (2021). (Review paper) 3D Photon-To-Digital Converter for Radiation Instrumentation: Motivation and Future Works. MDPI Sensors 21 (2), (Published).
• T. Stiegler, S. Sangiorgio, J.P. Brodsky, M. Heffner, S.A. Kharusi et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2021). Event Reconstruction in a Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber with an Optically-Open Field Cage. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A 1000 (Published).
• H. Bouziri*, C. M. Pepin, K. Koua, M. Benhouria, C. Paulin, J. Ouyang, M. Normandin, J. -F. Pratte, G. El Fakhri, R. Lecomte, R. Fontaine. (2021). Investigation of a Model-based Time-over-threshold Technique for Phoswich Crystal Discrimination. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (In Press).
• The nEXO Collaboration. (2021). NEXO: Neutrinoless double beta decay search beyond 10²⁸ year half-life sensitivity. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 49 015104. (Published).
• S. Wei, N. Joshi, M. Salerno, D. Ouellette, L. Saleh, C. De Lorenzo, C. Woody, D. Schlyer, M. L. Purschke, J.-F. Pratte, S. Junnarkar, M. Budassi, T. Cao, J. Fried, J. S. Karp, P. Vaska. (2021). PET imaging of leg arteries for determining the input function in PET/MRI brain studies using a compact, MRI-compatible PET system (featured paper of the journal's issue). IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences (Published).
• M. Wagenpfeil, T. Ziegler, J. Schneider, A. Fieguth, M. Murra, D. Schulte et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2021). Reflectivity of VUV-sensitive silicon photomultipliers in liquid Xenon. Journal of Instrumentation 16 (8), (Published).
• F. Nolet* ; N. Roy* ; S. Carrier* ; J. Bouchard* ; R. Fontaine ; S.A. Charlebois ; J.-F. Pratte. (2020). 22 μW, 5.1 ps LSB, 5.5 ps RMS jitter Vernier time-to-digital converter in CMOS 65 nm for single photon avalanche diode array. Electronics Letters 56 (9), 424-426. (Published).
• F. Nolet*, W. Lemaire*, F. Dubois*, N. Roy*, S.G. Carrier*, A. Samson*, S.A. Charlebois, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2020). A 256 Pixelated SPAD Readout ASIC with in-Pixel TDC and Embedded Digital Signal Processing for Uniformity and Skew Correction. Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A 949 (Published).
• W. Lemaire*; A. C. Therrien*; J.-F. Pratte and R. Fontaine. (2020). Dark Count Resilient Time Estimators for Time-of-Flight PET (featured paper of the journal's issue). IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 4 (1), 24-29. DOI. (Published).
• W. Lemaire*, F. Nolet*, F. Dubois*, A. C.Therrien*, J.-F. Pratte, R. Fontaine. (2020). Embedded time of arrival estimation for digital silicon photomultipliers with in-pixel TDCs. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 959 (11), (Published).
• O. Njoya, T. Tsang, M. Tarka, W. Fairbank, K.S. Kumar, T. Rao, T. Wager, S.A. Kharusi et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2020). Measurements of electron transport in liquid and gas Xenon using a laser-driven photocathode. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 972 (Published).
• F. Vachon*, S. Parent*, F. Nolet*, H. Dautet, J.-F. Pratte, S.A. Charlebois. (2020). Measuring count rates free from correlated noise in digital silicon photomultipliers. Measurement Science and Technology 32 (2), 025105. (Published).
• P. Lv, G.F. Cao, L.J. Wen, S.A. Kharusi for the nEXO Collaboration. (2020). Reflectance of Silicon Photomultipliers at Vacuum Ultraviolet Wavelengths. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 67 (12), 2501-2510. (Published).
• P. Nakarmi, I. Ostrovskiy, A.K. Soma, F. Retiere, S. Al Kharusi et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2020). Reflectivity and PDE of VUV4 Hamamatsu SiPMs in liquid xenon. Journal of Instrumentation 15 (1), (Published).
• Lecoq, P.; Morel, C.; Prior, J.; Visvikis, D.; Gundacker, S.; Auffray, E.; Krizan, P.; Martinez Turtos, R.; Thers, D.; Benoit, M.; Charbon, E.; Varela, J.; de La Taille, C.; Rivetti, A.; Breton, D. ; Pratte, J.-F.; Nuyts, J.; Surti, S.; Vandenberghe, S.; Marsden, P.; Parodi, K.; Benlloch, J.;. (2020). Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PETchallenge. Physics in Medicine and Biology 65 (21), (Published).
• G. Gallina, P. Giampa, F. Retiere, J. Kroeger, G. Zhang, M. Ward, P. Margetak, G. Li, T. Tsang, L. Doria, S. Al Kharusi, et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2019). Characterization of the Hamamatsu VUV4 MPPCs for nEXO. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A 940 371 - 379. (Published).
• C. Chambers, T. Walton, D. Fairbank, A. Craycraft, D.R. Yahne, J. Todd, A. Iverson, W. Fairbank et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2019). Imaging individual barium atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO. Nature 569 (7755), 203-207. (Published).
• Z. Li, W.R. Cen, A. Robinson, D.C. Moore, L.J. Wen, A. Odian, J.-F Pratte, et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2019). Simulation of Charge Readout with Segmented tiles in nEXO. Journal of Instrumentation 14 (9), (Published).
• M. Jewell, A. Schubert, W.R. Cen, J. Dalmasson, R. DeVoe, L. Fabris, G. Gratta, A. Jamil, G. Li, A. Odian, M. Patel, A. Pocar, D. Qiu, Q. Wang, L.J. Wen et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2018). Characterization of an Ionization Readout Tile for nEXO. Journal of Instrumentation 13 (1), (Published).
• Nolet, Frédéric* and Dubois, Frédérik* and Roy, Nicolas* and Parent, Samuel* and Lemaire, William* and Massie-Godon, Alexandre* and Charlebois, Serge A and Fontaine, Réjean and Pratte, J.-F. (2018). Digital SiPM channel integrated in CMOS 65 nm with 17.5 ps FWHM single photon timing resolution. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 912 29-32. DOI. (Published).
• A.C. Therrien*; W. Lemaire*; P. Lecoq; R. Fontaine; J.-F. Pratte. (2018). Energy discrimination for positron emission tomography using the time information of the first detected photons. Journal of Instrumentation 13 (1), p01012. (Published).
• C. Chambers et al., for the nEXO collaboration. (2018). Imaging individual Ba atoms in solid xenon for barium tagging in nEXO. arXiv:1806.10694v2 (Published).
• Nolet, Frédéric*; Parent, Samuel*; Roy, Nicolas*; Mercier, Marc-Olivier*; Charlebois, Serge A.; Fontaine, Réjean; Pratte, Jean-Francois. (2018). Quenching Circuit and SPAD Integrated in CMOS 65 nm with 7.8 ps FWHM Single Photon Timing Resolution. MDPI - Instrument - Special Issue Advances in Particle Detectors and Electronics for Fast Timing 2 (4), DOI. (Published).
• J. B. Albert et al., for nEXO Collaboration. (2018). Sensitivity and Discovery Potential of nEXO to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay. Phys. Rev. C 97 (6), 22. DOI. (Published).
• X.L. Sun et al for the nEXO Collaboration. (2018). Study of silicon photomultiplier performance in external electric fields. Journal of Instrumentation 13 (9), (Published).
• A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt, G. Li, L. Lupin-Jimenez, T. Michel, I. Ostrovskiy, F. Retiere, J. Schneider, M. Wagenpfeil for the nEXO Collaboration. (2018). VUV-Sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 65 (11), (Published).
• A. Jamil, T. Ziegler, P. Hufschmidt, G. Li, L. Lupin-Jimenez, T. Michel, I. Ostrovskiy, F. Retière, J. Schneider, M. Wagenpfeil et al., for the nEXO Collaboration. (2018). VUV-sensitive Silicon Photomultipliers for Xenon Scintillation Light Detection in nEXO. arXiv Instrumentation and Detectors (1806.02220v2) DOI. (Published).
• S. Al. Kharusi et al., for the nEXO collaboration. (2018). nEXO Pre-Conceptual Design Report. arXiv - Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors (arXiv:1805.11142) (Published).
• Bouchard, J.*; Samson, A*; Lemaire, W.*; Paulin, C.; Pratte, J.-F.; Bérubé-Lauzière, Y.; Fontaine, R. (2017). A Low-Cost Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting System for Multiview Time-Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 66 (10), 2505-2515. DOI. (Published).
• Roy, Nicolas* and Nolet, Frédéric* and Dubois, Frédérik* and Mercier, Marc-Olivier* and Fontaine, Réjean and Pratte, J.-F. (2017). Low Power and Small Area, 6.9 ps RMS Time-to-Digital Converter for 3D Digital SiPM. IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences 10 (6), 486-494. (Published).
• Tetrault, M.-A.*; Lemaire, W.*; Corbeil-Therrien, A.*; Fontaine, R.; Pratte, J.-F. (2017). TDC Array Trade-Offs in Current and Upcoming Digital SiPM Detectors forTime-of-Flight PET. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 64 (3), 925-932. DOI. (Published).
• Nolet F*, Rhéaume V-P*, Parent S*, Charlebois SA, Fontaine R, Pratte J-F. (2016). A 2D Proof of Principle Towards a 3D Digital SiPM in HV CMOS with Low Output Capacitance. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 63 (4), 2293-2299. (Published).
• Dequivre T, Al Alam E, Maurais L*, Pratte J.-F., Brisard G, Charlebois S. (2016). Electrografted P4VP for High Aspect Ratio CopperTSV Insulation in Via-Last Process Flow. J. Solid State Sci. Technol. 5 (6), 340-344. (Published).
• L. Convert*, R. Lebel, S. Gascon, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte, P. Charette, V. Aimez, R. Lecomte. (2016). Real-time microfluidic blood-counting system for PET and SPECT preclinical pharmacokinetic studies. Journal of Nuclear Medicine 57 (9), 1460-1466. (Published).
• Tétrault M.-A.*, C. Therrien A.*, Desaulniers Lamy A.*, Boisvert A.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2015). Dark Count Impact for First Photon Discriminators for SPAD Digital Arrays in PET. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 62 (3), 719-726. (Published).
• Berube BL*., Rhéaume V-P*., Parent S*., Maurais L*., Corbeil Therrien A*., Charlebois SA., Fontaine R., Pratte J-F. (2015). Implementation study of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) in HV CMOS 0.8 um technology. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 62 (3), 710-718. (Published).
• Tétrault M.-A.*, Desaulniers Lamy É.*, Boisvert A.*, Thibaudeau C.*, Dubois F.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2015). Real-Time Discreet SPAD Array Readout Architecture for Time of Flight PET. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 62 (3), 1077-1082. (Published).
• Corbeil Therrien A.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Charlebois S., Lecomte R., Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2014). Modeling of Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array Detector for PET Applications. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci 61 (1), 14-22. (Published).
• Dragone A., Caragiulo P., Carini G.A., Herbst R., Pratte J.-F., O’Connor P., Rehak P., Siddons D.P., Haller G. (2014). eLine 10k : a High Dynamic Range Front-End ASIC for LCLS Detectors. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 61 (2), 992-1000. (Published).
• Njejimana L.*, Tetrault M.-A.*, Arpin L.*, Burghgraeve A.*, Maille P.*, Lavoie J.-C.*, Paulin C., Koua K.C.*, Bouziri H.*, Panier S.*, Attouch M.W.B.*, Abidi M.*, Cadorette J., Pratte J.-F., Lecomte R., Fontaine R. (2013). Design of a Real-Time FPGA-Based Data Acquisition Architecture for the LabPET II: An APD-Based Scanner Dedicated to Small Animal PET Imaging. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. (9), 2727-2735. (Published).
• Convert L., Girard Baril F., Boisselle V., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Lecomte R., Charette P.G., Aimez V. (2012). Blood compatible microfluidic system for pharmacokinetic studies in small animals. Lab on a Chip 12 (22), 4683-4692. (Published).
• Schulz D., Southekal S., Junnarkar S.S., Pratte J.-F., Purschke M.L., Stoll S., Ravindranath B., Maramraju S.H., Krishnamoorthy S., Henn F.A., O'Connor P., Woody C.L., Schlyer D.J., Vaska P. (2011). Simultaneous assessment of rodent behavior and neurochemistry using a miniature positron emission tomograph. Nature Methods 8 (4), 347-352. (Published).
• Maramraju S.H., Smith S.D., Junnarkar S.S., Schulz D., Stoll S., Ravindranath B., Purschke M.L., Rescia S., Southekal S., Pratte J.-F., Vaska P., Woody C.L., Schlyer D.J. (2011). Small animal simultaneous PET/MRI: Initial experiences in a 9.4 T microMRI. Phys. Med. Biol 56 2459-2480. (Published).
• Carini G.A., Chen W., Dragone A., Fried J., Jakoncic J., Kuczweski A., Li Z., Mead J., Michta R., Pratte J.-F., Rehak P., Siddon D.P. (2009). Tests of small X-ray Active Matrix Pixel Sensor prototypes at the National Synchrotron Light Source. J. of Instrumentation 4 (3), (Published).
• Park S.-J., Southekal S., Purschke M., Junnarkar S., Pratte J.-F., Stoll S.P., Woody C.L., Schlyer D.J., Vaska P. (2008). Digital coincidence processing for the RatCAP conscious rat brain PET scanner. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci 55 (1), 510-515. (Published).
• Junnarkar S., Fried J., Southekal S., Pratte J.-F., O'Connor P., Radeka V., Vaska P., Purschke M., Tomasi D., Woody C., Fontaine R. (2008). Next generation of real time data acquisition, calibration and control system for the RatCAP scanner. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci 55 (1), 220-224. (Published).
• Solis E., Tomasi D., Junnarkar S., Schlyer D., Vaska P., Woody C., Pratte J.-F., O'Connor P., Rodriguez A.O. (2008). Shielded transceiver RF coil array for simultaneous PET-MRI. Braz. J. of Phys. 38 (2), 287-291. (Published).
• Pratte J.-F., Junnarkar S., Deptuch G., Fried J., O'Connor P., Radeka V., Vaska P., Woody C., Schlyer D., Stoll S., Maramraju S.H., Krishnamoorthy S., Lecomte R., Fontaine R. (2008). The RatCAP Front-End ASIC. IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci 55 (5), 2727-2735. (Published).

Rapports

• J. Elam, A. Mane, J. Comfort, P. Mauskopf, D. McFarland, et al., for the REDTOP Collaboration. (2021). The REDTOP experiment: Rare η/η′ Decays To Probe New Physics. Snowmass 2021. 171 p.
• Jean-Francois Pratte, Serge A. Charlebois, Thomas Brunner, Reiner Kruecken, Fabrice Retiere and Simon Viel. (2020). The Particle/Photon to Digital Converters. Snowmass 2021. 3 p.
• Corrado Gatto, Serge A. Charlebois, Jean-Francois Pratte et al. (2020). The REDTOP experiment: an eta/eta' factory. Snowmass 2021. 6 p.
• M. Kolarczik, H. Fedder, M. Wick, F. Nolet*, S. Parent*, N. Roy* and J.‐F. Pratte. (2019). Two photons timing resolution of record‐breaking low jitter SPADs measured by Time Tagger Ultra HiRes. Swabian Instruments GmbH. 2 p.

Articles de conférence

• A. Samson*, N. Roy, T. Rossigniol, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte, F. Lorenzo. (2022). A sub 50 ps Resolution With Low Nonlinearity 32Channel TDC Platform Based on XilinxUltraScale+ Architecture (oral presentation). IEEE NSS-MIC 2022. (Accepted).
• S. Parent*, F. Vachon, V. Gauthier*, A. Paquette*, J. Deschamps*, T. Rossignol, P. Arsenault*, C. Paulin, J. Lemay, N. Roy*, M. Côté*, D. Dupont, S. Martel, H. Dautet, S. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Characterization and Monitoring Platform for Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes in the Development of a Photon-to-Digital Converter Technology (oral presentation). 2022 IEEE 34th International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures (ICMTS). (Published).
• P. Martel-Dion*, P. Arsenault*, S. Prentice*, G. Lessard*, T. Rossignol, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte​. (2022). Development of Silicon Photonics Communication System for Dark Matter Search, Neutrino Physics and Quantum Computing Experiments​ (oral presentation). 24th Photonics North 2022 ​. (Published).
• F. Vachon, S. Parent*, A. Turala, V. Gauthier*, H. Dautet, F. Retière, M. Côté*, S. Martel, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Development of Single-Photon Avalanche Diode Array for Particule Physics and Medical Imaging. 15th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors. (Published).
• J.-F. Pratte, P. Arsenault*, S. Carrier*, K. Deslandes*, M. Labrecque-Dias*, G. Lessard*, P. Martel-Dion*, F. Nolet*, S. Parent*, S. Prentice*, A. Samson*, G. Theberge-Dupuis*, C. Paulin, T. Rossignol, N. Roy, A. Turala, F. Vachon, N. Viscogliosi, H. Dautet, L. Fabris, S. Martel, F. Retiere, S.A. Charlebois. (2022). Photodetection Module Technologies for Particle Physics and Medical Imaging (oral presentation). 15th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors. (Published).
• K. Deslandes*, K. Zoschke, T. Fritzsch, N. Roy, Y.-A. Beebe, J. Chenard*, F. Retiere, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Progess Report and Measurements of a Full-Scale 200 mm Interposer Technology as PCB Substitute in Cryogenic Particle Physics Experiments (oral presentation). IEEE NSS-MIC 2022. (Accepted).
• P. Arsenault*, P. Martel-Dion*, S. Prentice*, G. Lessard*, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Progress Report on Low-Power Silicon Photonics DAQ for Cryogenic LXe and LAr Experiments (presentation orale). IEEE NSS-MIC 2022. (Accepted).
• J.-P. Veran, S. Carrier*, S. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Time-Resolved Pyramid Wavefront Sensing using Photon-to-Digital Converters (oral presentation). Wavefront Sensing in the VLT/ELT era Workshop. (Accepted).
• N. Roy, T. Rossignol, F. Vachon, A. Samson*, C. Paulin, P. A. Hausladen, L. Fabris, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Towards Large-Scale Photosensitive Area with Photon-to-Digital Converter-based Module (oral presentation). IEEE NSS-MIC 2022. (Accepted).
• S. Parent*, F. Vachon, A. Paquette*, T. Rossignol, N. Roy, M. Côté*, R. Groulx, S. Martel, F. Retière, H. Dautet, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2022). Vertically Integrated Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes based on a TSV-less Frontside Illuminated Architecture and Manufactured at Wafer-level (oral presentation). IEEE NSS-MIC 2022. (Accepted).
• H. Bouziri*, C. M. Pepin, M. Benhouria, K. Koua, E. Gaudin*, C. Thibaudeau, A. Samson*, V. Labrecque*, C. Paulin, J. Ouyang*, M. Normandin, G. El Fakhri, J.- F. Pratte, R. Lecomte, R. Fontaine. (2021). DOI Measurement for the SAVANT Brain Scanner using Dual-Threshold ToT Technique. IEEE NSS-MIC 2021. (Published).
• K. Deslandes*, N. Roy, K. Zoschke, T. Fritzsch, F. Retiere, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2021). Low-radioactivity large-scale silicon interposer technology for particle physics experiments (oral presentation). International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics. (Published).
• F. Vachon*, S. Parent*, C.S. Tindall, H. Dautet, F. Retiere, J.-F. Pratte, S.A. Charlebois. (2021). Surface passivation of single photon avalanche diodes for enhanced sensitivity in the vacuum ultraviolet range for liquid noble gas experiments (oral presentation). International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics. (Published).
• P. Marcoux*, J. Rossignol*, P. Dufour*, F. Nolet*, N. Roy, G. Bélanger*, F. Gagnon*, J. Bouchard*, C. Paulin, J.- F. Pratte, A. Corbeil Therrien, Y. Bérubé-Lauzière, R. Fontaine. (2021). Ultra-High Precision Time-Resolved Detectors for Time-of-Flight Computed Tomography (TOF-CT). IEEE NSS-MIC 2021. (Published).
• F. Vachon*, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2020). Development status of the Photon-to-Digital Converter at Sherbrooke. nEXO Collaboration meeting. (Published).
• P. Martel-Dion*, T. Rossignol, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2020). Low Power, Cryogenic, Silicon Photonics-Based Data Acquisition and Control System. nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• K. Deslandes*, N. Roy, F. Retiere, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2020). Sherbrooke-IZM silicon interposer status, early measurement results. nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• S. Viel on behalf of the Canadian nEXO Collaboration. (2020). Silicon Photomultipliers for nEXO (oral presentation). Canadian Association of Physicists Congress. (Published).
• H. Bouziri*, K. C. Koua, C. M. Pepin, C. Paulin, R. Lecomte, J.- F. Pratte, R. Fontaine. (2020). Time-over-threshold based technique for crystal discrimination in phoswich PET detectors for DOI. IEEE NSS-MIC 2020. (Published).
• S. Carrier*, S. Parent*, F. Nolet*, R. Tannous*, P. Gendron*, M. Labrecque-Dias*, T. Rossignol*, N. Roy*, T. Jennewein, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Parent. (2019). 3D Digital Silicon Photomultiplier and Prospects for Quantum Key Distribution (ORAL presentation). Photonics North. (Published).
• T. Rossignol*, N. Roy*, G. St-Hilaire*, K. Deslandes*, C. Soucy*, S. Parent*, C. Paulin, N. Viscogliosi, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). A Low Power 3D Digital Silicon Photomultiplier Dedicated to Liquid Noble Gaz Experiments (ORAL presentation). IEEE NSS-MIC 2019. (Published).
• F. Nolet*, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Development of Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for medical imaging, particle physics and quantum key distribution​. 2019 Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference. (Published).
• M. Labrecques-Dias*, F. Nolet*, N. Roy, P. Gendron*, S. Carrier*, S.A. Charlebois, R. Fontaine and J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Development of Phase-Locked Loop and Advantages of Dedicated Frequency Control in Quantum Applications. 2019 Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference. (Published).
• F. Nolet*, F. Dubois*, W. Lemaire*, S.A. Charlebois, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Dual Phase-Locked Loop System for Vernier Time-to-Digital Converter Voltage Compensated Ring Oscillator Feedback. ResMiQ/ACFAS 2019. (Published).
• T. Rossignol*, F. Nolet*, S. Parent, N. Roy*, C. Soucy*, G. St-Hilaire*, F. Vachon*, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Sherbrooke's 3DdSiPM Readout ASIC: Latest Results (ORAL PRESENTATION). nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• T. Rossignol*, K. Deslandes*, F. Nolet*, S. Parent*, N. Roy*, C. Soucy*, G. St-Hilaire*, F. Vachon*, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Sherbrooke's 3DdSiPM Readout ASIC Latest Results (ORAL PRESENTATION). nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• K. Desleandes*, N. Roy*, F. Retiere, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Sherbrooke-IZM Silicon Interposer Technology Development (ORAL PRESENTATION). nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• N. Fontaine*, P. Martel-Dion*, S. Parent*, F. Vachon*, F. Nolet*, J.-F. Pratte and S. A. Charlebois. (2019). Single Photon Detectors Characterization using Entangled Photon Pairs. 2019 Canadian Graduate Quantum Conference. (Published).
• F. Vachon*, S. Parent*, M. Côté*, J. Deschamps*, F. Nolet*, T. Rossignol*, N. Roy*, G. St-Hiaire*, R. Groulx, S Martel, F. Retiere, H. Daudet, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Status of 3D Digital SiPM at Sherbrooke (ORAL PRESENTATION). nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• S. Parent*, M. Côté*, J. Deschamps*, É. Larose*, F. Nolet*, T. ROssignol*, N, Roy*, G. St-Hilaire*, F. Vachon*, R. Groulx, S. Martel, H. Dautet, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Status of 3DdSiPM Development at Sherbrooke (ORAL PRESENTATION). nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• S.A. Charlebois, R. Fontaine, R. Lecomte, J.-F. Pratte. (2019). Towards modalities based on 10ps photon timestamping with 3D digital SiPM (oral). MEDAMI 2019 Conference. (Published).
• F. Nolet*, F. Dubois*, N. Roy, W. Lemaire*, S. A. Charlebois, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2018). A 256 Pixelated Readout ASIC with in-Pixel TDC and Embedded Digital Signal Processing for SPAD Array. 2018 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• F. Nolet*; F. Dubois*; N. Roy; S.G. Carrier*; A. Samson*; G. St-Hilaire*; S.A. Charlebois; R Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2018). A 256 pixels single photon avalanche diode readout ASIC with embedded digital signal processing for time of flight positron emission tomography (ORAL Presentation). 2018 Front-end Electronics Workshop. (Published).
• Frédéric Nolet*, William Lemaire*, Frédérik Dubois*, Nicolas Roy, Arnaud Samson*, Simon G. Carrier*, Gabriel St-Hilaire*, Serge A. Charlebois, Réjean Fontaine and Jean-François Pratte. (2018). A Readout ASIC in TSMC CMOS 65 nm for Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array with Embedded Digital Signal Processing. CMC Microsystems - Innovation 360. (Published).
• E. Venialgo, J.-F. Pratte, S. Brunner, E. Charbon. (2018). Case Study of Digital SiPMs (ORAL presentation). International Conference on the Advancement of Silicon Photomultipliers. (Published).
• F. Nolet*, F. Dubois*, N. Roy, W. Lemaire*, S. A. Charlebois, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2018). Dual Phase-Locked Loop System for TDC Resolution Calibration. 2018 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Nicolas Roy*; Frédéric Nolet*; Frédérik Dubois*; Réjean Fontaine; Jean-François Pratte. (2018). Low area - low power Time-to-Digital Converter for pixelated detector with 6.9 ps RMS timing jitter (ORAL Presentation). 2018 Front-end Electronics Workshop. (Published).
• Jean-François Pratte; F. Nolet*; W. Lemaire*; F. Dubois*; N. Roy; S. G. Carrier*; A. Samson*; G. St-Hilaire*; S. A. Charlebois; R. Fontaine. (2018). Next generation 3D digital SiPM for precise timing resolution (ORAL Presentation). 14th Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics - 2018. (Published).
• Frédéric Vachon*; Samuel Parent*; Frédéric Nolet*; Henri Dautet; Serge A. Charlebois; Jean-François Pratte. (2018). PDE Measurement for Digital SiPMs: Comparison Between Pulsed And Continuous Light Methods. International Conference on the Advancement of Silicon Photomultipliers. (Published).
• S. Parent*, M. Côté*, F. Vachon*, R. Groulx, S. Martel, H. Dautet, S. A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2018). Single Photon Avalanche Diodes and Vertical Integration Process for a 3D Digital SiPM using Industrial Semiconductor Technologies (2nd position NSS student competition - oral presentation). 2018 IEEE NSS-MIC Conference Record, (Published).
• S. Parent*; F. Nolet*; H. Daudet; J.-F. Pratte; S. A. Charlebois. (2018). Single Photon Detectors using Geiger-mode Avalanche Diodes made in Teledyne DALSA Semiconductor Technologies. Conférence Quantique Canadienne pour les étudiants gradués. (Published).
• F. Acerbi, S. Gundacker, S. Brunner, A. Gola, E. Venialgo, E. Popova, T. Ganka, J.-F. Pratte, M.V. Nemallapudi, S. Dolinsky, S. Vinogradov. (2018). Time resolution of analog SiPMs: techniques and setups examples. International Conference on the Advancement of Silicon Photomultipliers (oral presentation). (Published).
• Serge A. Charlebois, Samuel Parent*, Frédéric Vachon*, Henri Dautet, Jean-François Pratte. (2018). Update on 3DdSiPM Development (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - Beijing. (Published).
• Serge A. Charlebois, Tommy Rossignol*, Nicolas Roy, Gabriel St-Hilaire*, Nicolas Viscogliosi, Caroline Paulin, Leo Caussan*, Frédéric Vachon*, Samuel Parent*, Jean-François Pratte. (2018). Update on 3DdSiPM readout ASIC and cryogenic CMOS modeling (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - Beijing. (Published).
• Nicolas Roy*, Samuel Parent*, Maxime Côté*, Tommy Rossignol*, Frédéric Vachon*, Gabriel St-Hilaire*, Jacob Deschamps*, Frédéric Nolet*, Henri Dautet, Jean-François Pratte, Serge Charlebois. (2017). 3D Digital SiPM Timeline (ORAL prsesentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - SLAC. (Published).
• Charlebois SA, Vachon F*, Parent S*, Côté M*, Rossignol T*, Nolet F*, Roy N*, Bourque F*, Retiere F, Pratte J.-F. (2017). 3DdSiPM - Digital Photon Counting Microsystem Based on 3D Integration: Architechture and Measurements on 1st Prototype. CSSTC 2017. (Published).
• Charlebois SA, Vachon F*, Parent S*, Côté M*, Rossignol T*, Nolet F*, Roy N*, Bourque F*, Retiere F, Pratte J.-F. (2017). 3D digital SiPM for large area and low background experiment (Oral presentation). 15th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics - TAUP2017. (Published).
• Vachon F.*, Parent S.*, Bernard X.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Côté M.*, Deschamps J.*, Nolet F.*, Rossignol T.*, Bourque F.*, Maurais L.*, Dubois F.*, Dequivre T., Corbeil Therrien A.*, Paulin C., Martel S., Dautet H., Fontaine R., Retiere F., Charlebois S. A., Pratte J.-F. (2017). 3D digital SiPM for nEXO (Oral Presentation). 2017 CAP Congress. (Published).
• F. Nolet*, F. Dubois*, N. Roy*, S. Parent*, W. Lemaire*, S. A. Charlebois, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2017). Digital SiPM Channel Integrated in CMOS 65 nmwith Measured Sub-20ps FWHM Single Photon Timing resolution (ORAL presentation). New Developments in Photodetection. (Published).
• F. Vachon*, S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2017). Effect of an External Electric Field on SiPM Performances (ORAL PRESENTATION). nEXO Collaboration Meeting. (Published).
• T. Rossignol*; F. Bourque*; M. Côté*; J. Deschamps*; F. Nolet*; S. Parent*, N. Roy*, G. St-Hilaire*, F. Vachon*, S. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2017). Electronics for 3DdSiPM (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - SLAC. (Published).
• Parent, S.*; Vachon, F.*; Charlebois, S.; Pratte, J.-F. (2017). Photodetector Measurement Capabilities and Strategy (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - SLAC. (Published).
• F. Vachon*; N. Roy; S. Parent*; M. Coté*; T. Rossignol*; G. St-Hilaire*; J. Deschamps*; S.A. Charlebois, J.-F. Pratte. (2017). Status of 3D digital SiPM at Sherbrooke (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting. (Published).
• Frédéric Vachon*, Samuel Parent*, Henri Dautet, Jean-François Pratte, Serge Charlebois. (2017). VUV Sensitivity Enhancement (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - SLAC. (Published).
• Pratte, J.-F., Fontaine, R., Charlebois, S. (2016). 3D Digital SiPM for Precise Single Photon Timing Resolution (ORAL PRESENTATION). Workshop on Performance Measurements of new Single Photon Detection Devices, 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• S. A. Charlebois, F. Bourque*, G. Cao, F. Retiere, J.-F. Pratte. (2016). Benefits for nEXO of a Fully Digital Large Area Photon Detector Made of 3D Digital SiPMs (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Lemaire W*, Corbeil Therrien A*, Pratte J.F., Fontaine R. (2016). Calibration Method for Time Measurement with the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator for Digital Silicon Photomultipliers (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Serge Charlebois, Jean-François Pratte. (2016). Considerations regarding silicon interposers (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - Triumf. (Published).
• Lemaire W*, Nolet F*, Corbeil Therrien A*, Pratte J.F., Fontaine R. (2016). Design Considerations for Embedded Real-Time Processing for 3D Digital SiPMs with Multiple TDCs. 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• M.-A. Tetrault*, A. C. Therrien*, W. Lemaire*, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2016). Digital SPAD Scintillation Detector Simulation Flow to Evaluate and Minimize Real-Time Requirements (ORAL). 2016 IEEE NPSS Real-Time Conference. (Published).
• Corbeil Therrien A*, Lemaire W*, Lecoq P, Fontaine R, Pratte J-F. (2016). Energy Discrimination Using First Emitted Photon Timestamps: An Exploratory Study. 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Rossignol, T.*, Bourque, F.*, Charlebois, S., Pratte, J.-F. (2016). Interposer technologies for nEXO (ORAL). nEXO Colllaboration Meeting - Amherst. (Published).
• Lecomte R, Gaudin E*, Arpin L, Beaudoin J.F., Bergeron M, Bouchard J*, Bouziri H*, Cadorette J, Jürgensen N*, Koua K, Lauzier-Trépanier P.Y., Leroux J.D., Loignon-Houle Francis*, Njejimana L*, Paillé M, Paulin C, Pepin C, Pratte J.F., Samson A*, Thibaudeau C, Viscogliosi N, Fontaine R. (2016). LabPET II: A Pixelated APD-Based PET Scanner for High-Resolution Preclinical Imaging. COMP 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting. (Published).
• Charlebois, S., Fontaine, R., Pratte, J.-F. (2016). Large Area Low Power Photodetector Based on 3D Digital SiPM (ORAL PRESENTATION). Workshop on Large Area Photodetectors - 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Bouchard, J.*, Lemaire, W.*, Samson, A.*, Paulin, C., Pratte, J.-F., Bérubé-Lauzière, Y., Fontaine, R. (2016). Preliminary results of a low-cost 4-channel time-correlated single photon counting system for time-domain diffuse optical tomography (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, MeMeA 2016. (Published).
• Jean-Francois Pratte on behalf of the 3D Intrumentation team at Sherbrooke. (2016). Progress on 3DdSiPM (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - Triumf. (Published).
• Jean-Francois Pratte, Serge Charlebois on behalf of the 3D Instrumentation team at Sherbrooke. (2016). Progress on 3DdSiPM Electronics and Interposer Assembly Failure Studies (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting - Triumf. (Published).
• Corbeil Therrien A*, Libioulle V, Charlebois S, Fontaine R, Pratte J-F. (2016). SPAD Array Simulator: Release and Distribution (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Pratte, J.-F.; Nolet, F.*; Bourque, F.*; Dubois, F.*; Bernard, X.*; Parent, S.*; Dequivre, T.; Al Alam, E.*; Jean, E.*; Daudet, H.; P. Momar Souare, Fontaine, Réjean; Danovitch, D.; Sylvestre, J.; Charlebois, S.A. (2016). Sherbrooke's Electronics (ORAL presentation). nEXO Collaboration meeting. (Published).
• J-F Pratte, S. Charlebois, F. Bourque*, T. Rossignol*, X. Bernard*, S. Parent*, V.-P. Rhéaume*, M. Côté*, L. Maurais*, F. Nolet*, T. Dequivre, E. Al Alam, F. Vachon*, R. Fontaine, D. Danovitch, J. Sylvestre,. (2016). Sherbrooke's Photodetector Progress Report (ORAL). nEXO collaboration meeting - Amherst. (Published).
• Pratte J.F., Bernard X*, Rhéaume V.P.*, Parent S*, Nolet F*, Maurais L*, Bérubé B.L.*, Dubois F*, Dequivre T, Corbeil Therrien A*, Tétrault M.A.*, Paulin C, Martel S, Dautet H, Fontaine R, Charlebois S. (2016). Sherbrooke’s First 3D Digital SiPM: Measurements, Recommendations and Future Work (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Charlebois, S.A.; Bourque, F.*; P. Momar Souare, Nolet, F.*; Dequivre, T.; Al Alam, E.*; Jean, E.*; Fontaine, Réjean; Danovitch, D.; Sylvestre, J.; Pratte, J.-F. (2016). Silicon Interposer for nEXO (ORAL presentation). nEXO collaboration meeting. (Published).
• Fontaine R, Arpin L, Paulin C, Koua K, Bouziri H*, Njejimana L*, Thibaudeau C, Beaudoin J.F., Cadorette J, Panier S*, Abidi M*, Bouchard J*, Jürgensen N*, Tétrault M.A.*, Bergeron M, Gaudin E*, Bérard P*, Charest J*, Paillé M*, Samson A*, Lauzier-Trépanier P.Y., Attouch W, Rossignol J, Gaudreault M, Forest K, Viscogliosi N, Berthelot F, Pepin C, Michaud J.B., Pratte J.F., Lecomte R. (2016). The Hardware Architecture of the LabPET II-Mouse, a Highly Integrated APD-based PET Scanner (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2016 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Nolet F.*, Roy N.*, Mercier M.-O.*, Parent S.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F.,. (2015). Circuit d’étouffement de photodiodes à avalanche monophotonique en CMOS 65 nm optimisé pour l’estampillage temporelle et l’intégration 3D (IEEE Circuit and System Student Award). Journée de l'innovation CAS & ReSMiQ 2015. (Published).
• Nolet F.*, Roy N.*, Mercier M.-O.*, Parent S.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2015). Circuit d’étouffement à seuil ajustable en CMOS 65 nm pour l’optimisation del’estampillage temporelle de photodiodes à avalanche monophotonique (1st place student poster competition). Colloque annuel du ReSMiQ dans le cadre du 83e congrès de l'ACFAS. (Published).
• M.-A. Tetrault*, A. Boisvert*, E. Desaulniers Lamy*, V. Rheaume*, B.-L. Berube*, L. Maurais*, X. Bernard*, F. Dubois*, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2015). Digital, Vertically Integrated Single Photon Detector for Positron Emission Tomography. 2015 Canadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference. (Published).
• Bernard X*, Maurais L*, Pratte J-F, Charlebois SA. (2015). HeterogeneousCMOS Die-to-Die 3D Integrated Prototyping Process for Sensor Microsystems. 17th Canadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference. (Published).
• Bernard X.*, Maurais L.*, Al Alam E.*, Dequivre T., Plourde M.*, Bourque F.*, Côté M.*, Fontaine R., Charlebois SA., Pratte J-F. (2015). Heterogeneous Die-to-Die 3D Integration and Packaging Issues for Advanced Detectors in Radiation Instrumentation. 2015 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging. (Published).
• N. Jürgensen*, L. Arpin, H. Bouziri*, L. Njejimama*, K. Koua, E. Gaudin*, J.-F. Pratte, R. Lecomte, R. Fontaine. (2015). Initial Results for Automatic Calibration of the LabPET II Front-End Detector Module (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2015 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Charlebois SA., Maurais L.*, Parent S.*, Bernard X.*, Dequivre T., Al Alam E.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J-F. (2015). Investigation of the Impact of a 3D Integration Process on Single Photon Avalanche Diodes Characteristics. 2015 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• Charlebois SA, Al Alam E, Dequivre T, Maurais L*, Bernard X*, Pratte J-F, Michel D, Mevellec V. (2015). New PolymerInsulated TSV: electrical performances, mechanical properties and processing onsilicon and other semiconductors TSVs. 17th Canadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference. (Published).
• Cobeil-Therrien A.*, Parent S.*, Tétrault M-A.*, Gundacker S., Lecoq P., Charlebois SA., Lecomte R., Fontaine R., Pratte J-F. (2015). Optimization of Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array Detectors with a Custom Simulator. 2015 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• Parent S.*, Bérubé BL.*, Martel S., Dautet H., Fontaine R., Charlebois SA., Pratte J-F. (2015). Process Modifications in a 0.8 um HV CMOS Technology for Single Photon Avalanche Diodes. 2015 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• Nolet F.*, Parent S.*, Roy N.*, Mercier M-O.*, Charlebois SA., Fontaine R., Pratte J-F. (2015). Quenching Circuit and SPAD Integrated in CMOS 65 nm with 13 ps FWHM Single Photon Timing Resolution. 2015 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• M.-O. Mercier*, N. Roy*, F. Nolet*, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2015). Readout Circuit and Data Acquisition System for a SPAD Array Designed in TSMC CMOS 65 nm (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2015 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Nolet F.*, Roy N.*, Mercier M.-O.*, Parent S.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2015). Single Photon Avalanche Diodes and Quenching Circuit Integrated in TSMC CMOS 65nm for High Timing Precision (1st place 2015 CMC Componentware/CAD Award). 2015 CMC Microsystems Annual Symposium. (Published).
• M. S. Traore*, C. Thibaudeau, K. Koua, M.-A. Tetrault*, C. M. Pepin, J. Cadorette, J.-F. Pratte, R. Lecomte, R. Fontaine. (2015). System Architecture of a Fully Combined PET/CT Scanner using LabPET(TM) Electronics with an Upgraded Analog Front-end Optimized for PET and CT Counting Mode Operation (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2015 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Pratte J-F., Nolet F.*, Mercier M-O.*, Roy N.*, Parent S.*, Maurais L.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Tétrault M-A.*, Dubois F.*, Bernard X.*, Dautet H., Lecomte R., Charlebois SA., Fontaine R. (2015). The 3D Single Photon Counting Module: a Solution to the 10 ps Single Photon Timing Resolution Challenge for Scintillator-Based Instruments (ORAL - Joint session NSS-MIC). 2015 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• N. Roy*, F. Nolet*, M.-O. Mercier*, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2015). Towards Picoseconds Timing Accuracy, Low Power and Low Area Time-to-Digital Converter Made in CMOS 65 nm for Pixel Integration in Single Photon Counting Modules (ORAL PRESENTATION). 2015 IEEE NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Chaput S.*, Renaudy M., Meingany R., Pratte J.-F. (2014). A 3.7 V to 200 V Highly Integrated DC-DC Converter with 70.4 % Efficiency for Portable Electrostatic MEMS Applications. 12th IEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS 2014), Trois-Rivières, Canada, June 22 – 25, 2014. (Published).
• Parent S.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Martel S., Fontaine R., Charlebois S.A., Pratte, J.-F. (2014). A Noise Reduction Method for Single Photon Avalanche Diodes in 0.8 um HV CMOS Technology. 2014 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• M.-A. Tetrault*, A. Boisvert*, E. Desaulniers Lamy*, B.-L. Berube*, M. Kanoun*, C. Thibaudeau*, L. Maurais*, J. Bouchard*, A. C. Therrien*, F. Dubois*, R. Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2014). Architecture numerique 3D pour matrice de detecteurs monophotoniques dediee à la tomographie d'emission par positrons. Conference Imaginez l'Imagerie. (Published).
• Fontaine R., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F. (2014). Current and Future Considerations for Design of Positron Emission Tomography Scanners Dedicated to Small Animal Imaging (ORAL PRESENTATION). CMOS Emerging Technologies Research. (Published).
• M.-A. Tetrault*, A. Boisvert*, E. Desaulniers Lamy*, B.-L. Berube*, V.-P. Rheaume*, M. Kanoun*, L. Maurais*, J. Bouchard*, A. C. Therrien*, C. Thibaudeau*, F. Dubois*, S. Charlebois, R. Fontaine et J.-F. Pratte. (2014). Digital SPAD detector for PET with real-time embedded processing, based on heterogeneous, vertically integrated mixed-signal electronic stack. 2014 CMC Annual Symposium - Texpo 2014. (Published).
• Nolet F.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Parent S.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2014). Digital SiPM in HV CMOS with Adjustable Analog Dynamic Range (ORAL PRESENTATION). IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• Therrien A. C.*, Parent S.*, Berube B.-L.*, Rheaume V.-P.*, Charlebois S. A., Lecomte R.,Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2014). Experimental Validation of a Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array Detector Simulator (ORAL PRESENTATION). IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• Maurais L.*, Charlebois S. A., Parent S.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Pratte J.-F. (2014). Impact of a 3D Microfabrication Process on the Dark Count Rate of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (ORAL PRESENTATION). IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. (Published).
• Tétrault M.-A.*, Desaulniers Lamy E.*, Boisvert A.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2014). Real-Time Discreet SPAD Array Readout Architecture for Time of Flight PET. 2014 IEEE 19th Real-Time Conference. (Published).
• Nolet F.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Parent S.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2014). Silicon Photomultiplier in HV CMOS 0.8 um with Adjustable Dynamic Range. 2014 CMC Annual Symposium. (Accepted).
• Rhéaume V.-P.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2013). Architecture de circuit intégré pour caractérisation de photodiodes avalanche monophotonique. 81e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Colloque du ReSMiQ, Université Laval. (Published).
• Boisvert A.*, Tétrault M.-A.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Desaulniers Lamy E.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2013). Circuit d’étouffement pour photodiodes à avalanche opérées en mode Geiger en technologie 3D CMOS 130 nm en vue d’une intégration 3D pour l’imagerie médicale. 81e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Colloque du ReSMiQ, Université Laval. (Published).
• Bérubé B.-L.*, Parent S.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Corbeil Therrien A.*, Maurais L.*, Charlebois S.A., Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2013). Conception de photodiodes avalanche monophotoniques en technologie CMOS HV 0.8 um dédiées à une intégration 3D. 81e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Colloque du ReSMiQ, Université Laval. (Published).
• Corbeil Therrien A.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Charlebois S.A., Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2013). Développement d’un simulateur dédié à un module de comptage de photons appliqué à la tomographie d’émission par positrons. 81e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Colloque du ReSMiQ, Université Laval. (Published).
• Rhéaume V.-P.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2013). Integrated Circuit for Characterization of Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes in HV-CMOS 0.8 µm. 2013 CMC Microsystems Annual Symposium. (Accepted).
• Tétrault M.-A.*, Desaulniers Lamy E.*, Boisvert A.*, Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2013). Low Dead Time SPAD Digital Readout Architecture for Real Time PET. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE. 1-6. (Published).
• Roy N.*, Mercier M.-O.*, Séguin-Godin G.*, Marcoux S.*, Brault L.-P.*, Lamoureux B.*, Picard S.*, St-Hilaire S.*, Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2013). Sonde de calibration temporelle pour des scanners précliniques à tomographie d’émission par positrons. 81e Congrès de l'ACFAS, Colloque du ReSMiQ. (Published).
• Bouziri H.*, Koua K., Arpin L., Ben Attouch M.W.*, Panier S.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Martin B., Pepin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2013). Time-over-Threshold Based Crystal Identification in Phoswich Detectors (ORAL PRESENTATION). Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE, [M05-6]. (Published).
• Ben attouch M.W.*, Koua K.M., Panier S.*, Arpin L., Njejimana L.*, Bouziri H.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2012). A fully integrated pulse charge generator embedded in a 64-channel readout ASIC dedicated to a PET/CT detector module. 2012 IEEE International Conference on Electronics Design, Systems and Applications (ICEDSA. 130-134. (Published).
• Berube B.-L.*, Rheaume V.-P.*, Therrien A.C.*, Parent S.*, Maurais L.*, Boisvert A.*, Carini G., Charlebois S.A., Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2012). Development of Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) Arrays in High Voltage CMOS 0.8 um dedicated to a 3D Integrated Circuit (3DIC). In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC). 1835-1839. (Published).
• Budassi M., Stoll S., Purschke M.L., Ravindranath B., Fried J., Cao T., Pratte J.-F., O'Connor P., Babst B., Woody C.L., Vaska P., Schlyer D.J. (2012). First Results from the BNL Plant Imaging System. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE. 3530-3532. (Published).
• Thibodeau C.*, Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Lecomte R. (2012). Polyenergetic CT Sinogram Generator. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE. 2707-2710. (Published).
• Pratte J.-F., Tétrault M.-A.*, Berube B.-L.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Rheaume V.-P.*, Boisvert A.*, Desaulniers Lamy E.*, Charlebois S., Fontaine R. (2012). Toward the Realization of 3D Single Photon Counting Modules for Radiation Instrumentation (ORAL PRESENTATION). In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE. (Published).
• Dragone A., Caragiulo P., Carini G.A., Herbst R., Pratte J.-F., O'Connor P., Rehak P., Siddons D.P., Haller G. (2012). eLine10k: A high dynamic range front-end ASIC for LCLS detectors. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE. 898-905. (Published).
• Bouziri H.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Arpin L.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). 64-channel readout ASIC for LabPET II. In CMC Symposium 2011. (Published).
• Ben Attouch M.W.*, Bouziri H.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Arpin L.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). A 64?Channel Readout ASIC for the LabPET II APD Array Dedicated to Small Animal PET/CT Imaging Scanners. CMC Symposium 2011. (Published).
• Panier S.*, Koua K., Arpin L.*, Bouziri H.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Pratte J.-F., Lecomte R., Fontaine R. (2011). A Small Area, Ultra-Low Power Baseline Holder for the APD-Based LabPET II Detector. Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE, [NP2.S-63]. (Published).
• Fontaine R., Koua K., Bouziri H.*, Arpin L.*, Panier S.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Pratte J.-F., Lecomte R. (2011). A Time over Threshold-Based 64-Channel Readout ASIC for the LabPET II APD Array Dedicated to Small Animal Imaging PET Scanner. Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE, [NP2.S-69]. (Published).
• Arpin L.*, Bouziri H.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). An Embedded Real Time Digital Signal Processing Unit and its Digital Design Flow for a 64?Channel PET Detector Module in a TSMC 0.18 um CMOS mixed?signal ASIC. CMC Symposium 2011. (Published).
• Vaska P., Purschke M.L., Fried J., Junnarkar S.S., Gualtieri E., Karp J.S., Stoll S., Maramraju S.H., Ravindranath B., Budassi M., Cao T., Pratte J.-F., O'Connor P., Schlyer D., Woody C.L. (2011). An MRI-Compatible PET Insert for Whole Body Studies in Rodents at High Functional and Anatomical Resolution. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE. 3169-3172. (Published).
• Arpin L.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Bouziri H.*, Abidi M.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). Architecture numérique et procédure de validation pour un ASIC à signaux mixtes utilisé dans un scanner bimodal TEP/TDM avec 64 canaux d’acquisition. 79e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université de Sherbrooke. (Published).
• Ravindranath B., Huang P.-J., Junnarkar S., Hong X., Purschke M.L., Stoll S., Maramraju S.H., Wang G.-J., Vaska P., Pratte J.-F., Woody C., Schlyer D. (2011). Clinical Evaluation of a Prototype Simultaneous PET-MRI Breast Imaging System (ORAL PRESENTATION). Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE, [MIC13-2]. (Published).
• Panier S.*, Koua K., Arpin L.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Bouziri H.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). Conception et intégration en technologie CMOS 0.18 µm d’un circuit de maintien de tension de base en sortie d’un filtre de mise en forme unipolaire dans un scanner bimodal TEP/TDM. 79e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université de Sherbrooke. (Published).
• Ben Attouch M.W.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Arpin L.*, Abidi M.*, Bouziri H.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). Conception et intégration en technologie CMOS 0.18 µm d’un pulseur permettant de stimuler une quantité de charge à l’entrée des chaines d’acquisitions pour le scanner bimodal de TEP/TDM. 79e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université de Sherbrooke. (Published).
• Thibaudeau C.*, Leroux J.D., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Lecomte R. (2011). Cylindrical and Spherical Ray-Tracing for CT Iterative Reconstruction. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE. 4378-4381. (Published).
• Convert L., Girard-Baril F., Boisselle V., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Aimez V. (2011). Détecteur microfluidique haute efficacité pour les études pharmacocinétiques précliniques avec des radiotraceurs TEP et TEM. 79e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université de Sherbrooke. (Published).
• Arpin L.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Bouziri H.*, Abidi M.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Paulin C., Maillé P.*, Geoffroy C.*, Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). Embedded Real Time Digital Signal Processing Unit for a 64-Channel PET Detector Module. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE. 1545-1550. (Published).
• Panier S.*, Koua K., Arpin L.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Bouziri H.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). Intégration en technologie CMOS 0.18µm d’un contrôleur haute tension pour la polarisation de photodiode à avalanche dans un scanner TEP/TDM. 79e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université de Sherbrooke. (Published).
• Corbeil Therrien A.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Thibaudeau C.*, Charlebois S., Lecomte R., Fontaine R., Pratte J.-F. (2011). Modeling of Single Photon Avalanche Diode Array Detectors for PET Applications. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE. 48-53. (Published).
• Purschke M.L., Budassi M., Cao T., Fried J., Gualtieri E., Junnarkar S.S., Karp J.S., Maramraju S.-H., O'Connor P., Pratte J.-F., Ravindranath B., Schlyer D., Stoll S.P., Vaska P., Woody C. (2011). Readout technologies for the BNL-UPenn MRI-compatible PET scanner for rodents. In Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE. 617-620. (Published).
• Convert L., Girard-Baril F., Boisselle V., Chabot V., Zermatten P.-J., Hamel R Jr., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Cloarec J.-P., Lecomte R., Charette P.G., Aimez V. (2011). Real time microfluidic analysis system for small animal molecular imaging. 4ème Colloque du Laboratoire International Associé : Nanotechnologies & Nanosystèmes (LIA-LN2). (Published).
• Bouziri H.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Arpin L.*, Abidi M.*, Paulin C., Pepin C.M., Bergeron M., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). Time-over-Threshold Based Crystal Identification in Phoswich Detectors (ORAL PRESENTATION). Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2011 IEEE. (Published).
• Thibaudeau C.*, Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Lecomte R. (2011). Tomodensitométrie spectrale par comptage de photons. 79e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université de Sherbrooke. (Published).
• Bouziri H.*, Koua K., Panier S.*, Arpin L.*, Abidi M.*, Ben Attouch M.W.*, Paulin C., Lecomte R., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2011). Étude de la mise en forme du signal analogique pour l’optimisation de la résolution en temps et de la résolution en énergie d’un scanner TEP/TDM avec 64 canaux d’acquisition. 79e Congrès de l'Acfas, Université de Sherbroo. (Published).
• Abidi M.*, Calliste K.K.*, Kanoun M.*, Panier S.*, Arpin L.*, Tétrault M.-A.*, Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R. (2010). A delay locked loop for fine time base generation in a positron emission tomography scanner. In 5th Conference on Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era, DTIS 2010. 1-4. (Published).
• Convert L., Girard-Baril F., Boisselle V., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Aimez V., Charette P., Lecomte R. (2010). Microfluidic Beta and Conversion Electron Radiation Detector for Preclinical Pharmacokinetic Studies with PET and SPECT Radiotracers. Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record (NSS/MIC), 2010 IEEE. 2128-2131. (Published).
• Convert L., Girard-Baril F., Boisselle V., Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Aimez V., Charette P., Lecomte R. (2010). Microfluidic Beta and Conversion Electron Radiation Detector for Preclinical Pharmacokinetic Studies with PET and SPECT Radiotracers (ORAL PRESENTATION). In 2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference and 17th Room Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop - 2010 NSS-MIC,(p. [M09-6]). (Published).
• Ravindranath B., Junnarkar S.S., Purschke M.L., Maramraju S.H., Southekal S.S., Stoll S.P., Pratte J.F., Vaska P., Woody C.L., Schlyer D.J. (2009). 3D tomographic wrist scanner for non-invasive determination of input function. In 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2009. 2917-2919. (Published).
• Koua K.M.C., Pratte J.-F., Assane A.-A.I., Viscogliosi N., Pepin C., Lecomte R., Fontaine R. (2009). Design and Performance of a 0.18-?m CMOS Charge Sensitive Preamplifier for the LabPET II, a Novel 64-Channel APD-Based Detector for PET/CT. 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imag¬ing Conference [N13-30]. (Published).
• Vaska P., Kim D., Southekal S., Krishnamoorthy S., Stoll S., Fried J., Schulz D., Pratte J.-F., Dragone A., Cui Y.-G., DeGeronimo G., Bolotnikov A., Woody C.L., O’Connor P. (2009). Performance of a Prototype Ultra-High Resolution PET Scanner Using CZT Pixel Detectors (ORAL PRESENTATION). In 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imag¬ing Conference [M15-2]. (Published).
• Southekal D., Schulz D., Schlyer S., Junnarkar S.S., Maramraju S.H., Ravindranath B., Stoll S., Purschke M., Pratte J.-F., Woody C.L., Vaska P. (2009). Quantitative Dynamic Neuroimaging with the RatCAP. 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imag¬ing Conference [N13-30]. (Published).
• Ravindranath B., Junnarkar S.S., Purschke M.L., Maramraju S.H., Hong X., Tomasi D., Bennett D., Cheng K., Southekal S.S., Stoll S.P., Pratte J.-F., Vaska P., Woody C.L., Schlyer D.J. (2009). Results from prototype II of the BNL simultaneous PET-MRI dedicated breast scanner. In 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2009. 3315-3317. (Published).
• Maramraju S.H., Smith S.D., Rescia S., Junnarkar S., Ravindranath B., Stoll S., Purschke M., Schulz D., Southekal S., Lenz W., Pratte J.-F., Vaska P., Woody C., Schlyer D. (2009). Simultaneous acquisition of PET/MR images of small animals at 9.4 T. 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imag¬ing Conference [M05-247]. (Published).
• Carini G.A., Dragone A., Chen W., Fried J., Kuczewski A., Li Z., Mead J., O'Connor P., Pratte J.-F., Rehak P., Wolniewicz K., Siddons D.P. (2009). The XAMPS detector for the X-ray pump-probe instrument at LCLS. In 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2009. 2151-2153. (Published).
• Vaska P., Kim D., Southekal S., Pratte J.-F., Fried J., Krishnamoorthy S., Stoll S., Bolotnikov A. (2009). Ultra-high resolution PET: a CZT-based scanner for the mouse brain (ORAL PRESENTATION). In 2009 SNM Annual Meeting. (Published).
• Maramraju S.H., Junnarkar S., Ravindranath B., Southekal S., Stoll S., Smith S.D., Lenz W., Pratte J.-F., Purschke M., Rescia S., Krishnamoorthy S., Vaska P., Woody C., Schlyer D. (2008). An MR compatible PET scanner based on RatCAP for small animal imaging at 9.4 T. In 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008. 3679-3682. (Published).
• Ravindranath B., Maramraju S.H., Junnarkar S.S., Southekal S.S., Stoll S.P., Pratte J.-F., Purschke M.L., Hong X., Bennett D., Cheng K., Tomasi D., Smith D.S., Krishnamoorthy S., Vaska P., Woody C.L., Schlyer D.J. (2008). A simultaneous PET/MRI breast scanner based on the RatCAP. In 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008. 4650-4655. (Published).
• Krishnamoorthy S., Stoll S., Purschke M., Pratte J.-F., Woody C., Yu B., O'Connor P., Shlyer D., Vaska P. (2008). Design and Performance of a Light-Sharing Detector for 3D Gamma-Ray Imaging (ORAL PRESENTATION). In 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference , NSS/MIC 2008. (Published).
• Vaska P., Pratte J.-F., Dragone A., Fried J., Cui Y.-G., De Geronimo G., Kim D., Krishnamoorthy S., Bolotnikov A., O'Connor P., Dilmanian A., James R.B. (2008). Initial Results from a Full-Ring PET Scanner for the Mouse Brain Using CZT Pixel Detectors. IEEE 2008 NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Ravindranath B., Maramraju S.H., Cheng K., Hong X., Jiang A., Tomasi D., Junnarkar S., Stoll S., Pratte J.-F., Smith D., Southekal S., Purschke M., Krishnamoorthy S., Vaska P., Woody C., Schlyer D. (2008). MRI Performance Evaluation of a Dedicated Breast PET/MRI Scanner based on the RatCAP (ORAL PRESENTATION). In IEEE 2008 NSS-MIC Breast Imaging Workshop,[MR3-2]. (Published).
• Vaska P., Woody C.L., Schlyer D.J., Junnarkar S., Southekal S., Schulz D., Pratte J.-F., Stoll S., Purschke M., Fried J., Schiffer W., Maramraju S.H., Ravindranath B., Krishnamoorthy S., Radeka V., O'Connor P., Lecomte R., Fontaine R. (2008). Physical Performance and Quantitative Brain Imaging Studies Using the RatCAP Tomograph. IEEE 2008 NSS-MIC. (Published).
• Pratte J.-F., Junnarkar S., Deptuch G., Fried J., O'Connor P., Radeka V., Vaska P., Woody C., Schlyer D., Lecomte R., Fontaine R. (2008). The RatCAP Front-End Electronics, TEXPO competition’s 2008 CMC Componentware/CAD Award, (1ST PLACE WINNER). 2008 CMC Annual Symposium. (Published).
• Dragone A., Pratte J.F., Rehak P., Carini G.A., Herbst R., O'Connor P., Siddons D.P. (2008). XAMPS detector readout ASIC for LCLS. In 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008. 2970-2975. (Published).
• Carini G.A., Chen W., Dragone A., Fried J., Jakoncic J., Kuczweski A., Li Z., Mead J., Michta R., Pratte J.-F., Rehak P., Siddons D.P. (2008). XAMPS prototypes for the x-ray pump probe instruments at the LCLS. In 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2008. 1572-1577. (Published).

Propriétés intellectuelles

Patents

• J.-F. Pratte, S. Parent*, S. Charlebois, H. Dautet. Opto-electrical insulated frontside illuminated 3D digital silicon photomultiplier. PCT/CA2022/050911. Canada. (Pending).
• Frédéric Nolet*, Frédérik Dubois*, Nicolas Roy*, Jean-Francois Pratte. Time To Digital Conversion. PCT/CA2021/050746. Canada. (Pending).

Autres contributions

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Photon sensors, microelectronics and microsystems expert. Italy. DarkSide-20k is an international collaboration (15 countries) looking to demonstrate the existance of dark matter in our universe.
• Photon sensors, microelectronics and microsystems expert. United States. The nEXO experiment is an international collaboration looking to demonstrate double beta decay without neutrinos, demonstrating that the neutrino is a Majorana particle leading to an important change in the standard model of particle physics.
• Photon sensors, microelectronics and microsystems expert. Canada. Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat) Collaboration.

Présentations

• J.-F. Pratte. (2022). (Invited plenary talk) Adding a New Dimension to Photon Detection: 3D Integrated Single Photon Avalanche Diode Arrays. 2022 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. Milano, Italy
• J.-F. Pratte, S. Parent*, F. Vachon, A. Turala, V. Gauthier*, ​S. Martel, R. Groulx, M. Côté*, F. Retière, ​H. Dautet, S. A. Charlebois. (2022). Sherbrooke Frontside Illuminated SPAD Architecture ​and Preliminary Performances​. 2022 International SPAD Sensor Workshop. Virtual Meeting, United States
• J.-F. Pratte, S. Carrier*, K. Deslandes*, V. Gauthier*, M. Labrecque-Dias*, P. Martel-Dion*, F.Nolet*, S. Parent*, T. Rossignol, N. Roy, N. St-Jean*, A. Turala, F. Vachon*, R. Fontaine, S. Charlebois. (2021). (Invited plenary talk) Enabling Progress for Single Photon Detection Systems. CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop 2021. Stony Brook, United States
• J.-F. Pratte, K. Deslandes*, V. Gauthier*, P. Martel-Dion*, F. Nolet*, S. Parent*, C. Richard*, T. Rossignol, N. Roy, N. St-Jean*, A. Turala, F. Vachon*, F. Retiere*, R. Fontaine, S. A. Charlebois. (2021). (Invited plenary talk) Update on Photon Detection Module for Large-Scale Noble Liquid Experiments and Precise Timing Systems. International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics. Vancouver (virtual), Canada
• J.-F. Pratte, S. Carrier*, S.A. Charlebois. (2021). 3D Integrated Photon-to-Digital Converters. National Research Council Canada (NRC) Adaptive Optics Seminar. Canada
• J.-F. Pratte, S. Carrier*, K. Deslandes*, V. Gauthier*, M. Labrecque-Dias*, P. Martel-Dion*, F. Nolet*, S. Parent, T. Rossignol, N. Roy, A. Turala, F. Vachon*, F. Retiere, R. Fontaine, S.A. Charlebois. (2021). What do neutrino physics, dark matter searches, medical imaging and quantum key distribution instrumentation have in common?. ReSMiQ Webinar. Canada
• J.-F. Pratte, S. Carrier*, K. Deslandes*, V. Gauthier*, P. Gendron*, M. Labrecque-Dias*, P. Martel-Dion*, F. Nolet*, C. Paulin, S. Parent*, T. Rossignol*, N. Roy, F. Vachon*, S.A. Charlebois. (2020). 3D Integrated Front Side Illuminated Photon-to-Digital Converters: Status and Applications. 2020 International SPAD (single photon avalanche diode) Sensor Workshop. Edinburgh (virtual due to Covid-19), United Kingdom
• J.-F. Pratte, F. Retiere, S.A. Charlebois. (2020). Photon-to-Digital Converters and Other Technologies for Particle Physics. DUNE Expertise Sharing Workshop. Batavia, United States
• J.-F. Pratte, F. Retiere, S. A. Charlebois. (2020). Photon-to-Digital Converters for precise timestamping and/or large area noble liquid experiments. CALICE Collaboration Meeting. Montréal, Canada
• J.-F. Pratte, S. Carrier*, A. C. Therrien*, K. Deslandes*, P. Gendron*, M. Labrecque-Dias*, W. Lemaire*, F. Nolet*, S. Parent*, C. Richard*, N. Roy, T. Rossignol*, G. St-Hilaire*,... S. A. Charlebois. (2019). Introduction to 3D Digital SiPM and Latest Results for Particle Physics. Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP2019). Burnaby, BC, Canada
• S. Charlebois, F. Retiere, J.-F. Pratte. (2018). 3D digital SiPM development for large area photodetectors. 2018 CPAD Instrumentation Frontier Workshop. Providence, Rhode Island, United States
• (2018). 2018 IEEE NPSS Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award - For Spearheading the Development of per Pixel Picosecond Timing with Single Photon Avalanche Diodes Three-Dimensionally Integrated to Custom Readout Circuits. 2018 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. Sydney, Australia
• F. Nolet*; F. Dubois*; N. Roy; S.G. Carrier*; A. Samson*; G. St-Hilaire*; S.A. Charlebois; R Fontaine, J.-F. Pratte. (2018). A 256 pixels single photon avalanche diode readout ASIC with embedded digital signal processing for time of flight positron emission tomography (ORAL Presentation). 2018 Front-end Electronics Workshop. Orford, Canada
• J.-F. Pratte, S.A. Charlebois. (2018). Concept of 3D digital SiPM and the development for nEXO and DEAP. CERN SiPM Integrated Electronics Meeting. Geneva, Switzerland
• Nicolas Roy*; Frédéric Nolet*; Frédérik Dubois*; Réjean Fontaine; Jean-François Pratte. (2018). Low area - low power time-to-digital converter for pixelated detector with 6.9 ps RMS timing jitter (ORAL Presentation). 2018 Front-end Electronics Workshop. Orford, Canada
• J.-F. Pratte; F. Nolet*; W. Lemaire*; F. Dubois*; N. Roy*; S.G. Carrier*; A. Samson*; G. St-Hilaire*; S.A. Charlebois; R. Fontaine. (2018). Next generation 3D digital SiPM for precise timing resolution. 14th Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics. Elba, Italy
• Charlebois S., Bourque F.*, Momar Souare P., Nolet F.*, Dequivre T., Al Alam E., Jean É., Fontaine R., Danovitch D., Sylvestre J., Pratte J-F. (2016). 3D Digital SiPM and Smart Silicon Interposer for nEXO. nEXO Collaboration meeting - SLAC. Menlo Park, United States
• Marc-André Tétrault*, Réjean Fontaine, Jean-Francois Pratte. (2016). Digital SPAD Scintillation Detector Simulation Flow to Evaluate and Minimize Real-Time Requirements (ORAL). Workshop on Pico-Second Photon Sensors For Physics and Medical Applications. Kansas City, United States
• Fontaine R, Lecomte R, Pratte J-F. (2016). Past, current and foreseen PET and CT scanner researches dedicated to small and mid-size animal imaging at Université de Sherbrooke. Harvard – Massachusset Medical school seminars. boston, United States
• Pratte J-F., Bourque F.*, Nolet F.*, Dubois F.*, Bernard X.*, Parent S.*, Dequivre T., Al Alam E., Jean E., Dautet H., Fontaine R., Danovitch D., Sylvestre J., Charlebois S. (2016). Sherbrooke’s Electronics. nEXO Collaboration meeting - SLAC. Menlo Park, United States
• Pratte J-F. (2016). Single Photon Detector Microsystems for Neutrino and High Energy Physics: 3D Digital Silicon Photomultiplier. McGill Particle and Astroparticle Physics Seminar. Montréal, Canada
• Pratte, J.-F., Bourque, F.*, Rossignol, T.*, Bernard, X.*, Parent, S.*, Rhéaume, V.-P.*, Côté, M.*, Nolet, F.*, Dequivre, T., Vachon, F.*, Fontaine, R., Danovitch, D., Sylvestre, J., Charlebois, S. (2016). The 3D digital SiPM for nEXO (https://indico.cern.ch/event/522485/). Front-End Electronics 2016. Krakow, Poland
• R. Fontaine, R. Lecomte et J.F. Pratte. (2016). Tomographie d’émission par positrons à l’Université de Sherbrooke, historique et besoins futurs. Séminaire, Département de physique, Université Laval. quebec, Canada
• Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Lecomte R., Charlebois S., Bernard X.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Dubois F.*, Maurais L.*, Mercier M. O.*, Nolet F.*, Parent S.*, Roy N.*, Tétrault M.-A.*, Paulin C. (2015). 3D Digital SPAD Array Readout: from 10 ps Timing Resolution to Low Power Single Photon Counting Timing. Triumf Technical Seminar. Vancouver, Canada
• Pratte J-F., Nolet F.*, Charlebois S., Fontaine R., Retiere F. (2015). 3D Digital SiPM for nEXO: Motivation, Architecture and Outcomes. nEXO Collaboration meeting. Philadelphia, United States
• Pratte J.-F., Fontaine R., Charlebois SA., Bernard X.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Dubois F.*, Maurais L.*, Mercier M-O.*, Nolet F.*, Parent S.*, Roy N.*, Tétrault M-A.*, Paulin C. (2015). 3D Single Photon Counting Modules: Status and Future Work. CMOS Emerging Technologies Research. Vancouver, Canada
• Pratte J-F., Fontaine R., Charlebois S., Bernard X.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Dubois F.*, Maurais L.*, Mercier M-O.*, Nolet F.*, Parent S.*, Roy N.*, Tétrault M-A.*, Paulin C. (2015). 3D Single Photon Modules for Fast Timing. Fast Advanced Scintillator Timing First Annual General Meeting. Prague, Czech Republic
• Pratte J-F., Fontaine R., Charlebois S., Lecomte R., Parent S.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Tétrault M-A.*, Nolet F.*, Roy N.*, Mercier M-O.*, Maurais L.*, Paulin C. (2015). Having fun counting photons: Optimizing single photon timing resolution and improve aSiPM, dSiPM and PMT systems. CERN PH-CMX group. Genève, Switzerland
• Pratte J-F., Fontaine R., Charlebois S., Lecomte R., Parent S.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Tétrault M-A.*, Nolet F.*, Roy N.*, Mercier M-O.*, Maurais L.*, Paulin C. (2015). SPAD Readout Electronics for Particle Physics Experiments and Positron Emission Tomography. Fermi National Laboratory. Batavia, United States
• Pratte J.-F., Lecomte R., Fontaine R., Charlebois S. (2015). The activities at the Groupe de Recherche en Appareillage Médical de Sherbrooke – GRAMS The LabPET II & 3D Single Photon Counting Modules. Crystal Clear Collaboration Annual Meeting. Prague, Czech Republic
• Pratte J.-F., Bérubé B.-L.*, Corbeil-Therrien A.*, Desaulniers-Lamy E.*, Dubois F.*, Maurais L.*, Mercier M.O.*, Nolet F.*, Parent S.*,Rhéaume V.-P.*,Roy N.*,Tétrault M.-A.*,Charlebois S., Fontaine R. (2013). Design criteria, advantages and tradeoffs of 3D Single photon counting modules for tens of ps resolution. 2013 IEEE NSS/MIC/RTSD. Séoul, Korea, Republic of
• Pratte J.-F., Tétrault M.-A.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Corbeil Therrien A.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Boisvert A.*, Desaulniers Lamy E.*, Parent S.*, Maurais L.*, Charlebois S., Fontaine R. (2012). Development of 3D Single Photon Counting Modules for Radiation Instrumentation. SLAC Advanced Instrumentation Seminars. Menlo Park, United States
• Pratte J.-F., Tétrault M.-A.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Desaulniers Lamy E.*, Corbeil Therrien A.*, Boisvert A.*, Rhéaume V.-P.*, Pepin C., Charlebois S., Lecomte R., Fontaine R. (2011). 3D Digital Photodetectors Status and Plans. Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting on Front-End Electronics [Art. No.: 5751422]. Bergamo, Italy
• Pratte J.-F. (2010). Circuits intégrés en 3D et instrumentation pour imagerie médicale. 78e Congrès de l'ACFAS. Montréal, Canada
• Pratte J.-F., Desaulniers Lamy É.*, Bérubé B.-L.*, Corbeil Therrien A.*, Boisvert A.*, Tétrault M.-A.*, Charlebois S, Lecomte R, Fontaine R. (2010). Circuits intégrés en 3D et photodétecteurs numériques. Colloque Sherbrooke-Montpellier 2010. Sherbrooke, Canada
• Pratte J.-F., Tetrault M.-A.*, Fontaine R. (2010). High sensitivity fully digital photodetector. In 3D Systems Integration Conference 2010 IEEE International (3DIC). Munich, Germany
• (2009). A passion for microelectronics and medical imaging. CMC Microsystems. Kingston, Canada
• Dragone A., Pratte J.-F., Rehak P., Carini G., Mead J., Kuczewski A., Herbst R., Haller G., Van Bakel N., O’Connor P., Siddons D.P. (2009). Front End Electronics for Instruments at LCLS. FEXAMPS: a case study. 7th International Meeting on Front-End Electronics (FEE 2009). Montauk, United States