Recent Advances in LiDAR Sensor
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 1329
Special Issue Editor
Interests: CMOS analogue integrated circuit designs for the applications of high-speed optical interconnects; silicon photonics; LiDAR sensors
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Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors have been very popular for various applications including advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs), autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, mobile phones, remote sensing systems, security systems, terrain surveying and mapping systems, and indoor-monitoring elder-care systems. In particular, cost-effective and compact LiDAR sensors have become very crucial for the development of advanced sensor systems in urgent-demand applications. However, current LiDAR sensors mandate a mechanical scanner and thus can hardly satisfy their stringent requirements. Therefore, solid-state LiDAR sensors based on advanced semiconductors have recently been paid a great deal of attention as a potential solution.
For the realization of advanced solid-state LiDAR sensors, single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) and avalanche photodiodes (APDs) based on CMOS technologies are considered to be the most crucial devices as long as they can detect very low-intensity signals and provide cost effectiveness and high-volume manufacturing as a universal platform. Furthermore, recent advances in the fields of CMOS technologies can certainly facilitate the realization and development of cost-effective and compact solid-state LiDAR sensors.
Hence, the goal of this Special Issue is to invite the submission of high-quality, state-of-the-art research articles that deal with challenging issues in LiDAR sensors. We solicit original papers of unpublished and completed research that are not currently under review elsewhere. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) in CMOS technologies;
- Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) in CMOS technologies;
- Simulation and modeling of SPADs/APDs;
- Analog front-end (AFE) circuits for LiDAR sensors;
- Readout integrated circuits (ROICs) for LiDAR sensors;
- Solid-state LiDAR sensors.
Prof. Dr. Sung Min Park
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs)
- avalanche photodiodes (APDs)
- analog front-end (AFE) circuits
- readout integrated circuits (ROICs)
- solid-state LiDAR sensors
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