Electromagnetic Field (EMF) Sensors / Detectors / Transducer
Photon Detector is sensitive to low-level light signals.
Press Release Summary:
Able to detect single photons, DAPD10C Series solid-state photomultipliers offers wide spectral response from UV to NIR wavelengths. Discrete Amplification technology allows level of application-specific customization and performance optimization. Designed to potentially encompass detection of signals other than light, such as biological, chemical, and electrical signals, products have flat spectral curve between 300 and 600 nm and exhibit voltage and thermal stability.
Original Press Release:
Amplification Technologies Unveils Breakthrough in Highly Sensitive Semiconductor Photon Detectors and First Commercial Product
NEW YORK - June 26, 2008 - Amplification Technologies Inc. (ATI, at www.amplificationtechnologies.com), a developer of advanced ultra-sensitive semiconductor detection technology, today announced its first commercially available product. ATI has successfully developed a Discrete Amplification Photon Detector (DAPD10C Series) designed for the detection of extremely low-level light signals. The DAPD10C Series is one of a next generation of solid-state photomultipliers being developed by ATI that are expected to replace vacuum tube-based photodetectors in critical medical imaging, biomedical, industrial, and research applications.
Photodetectors based on the company's Discrete Amplification (DA) technology will be targeted for various existing markets and applications and are expected to also open up new areas that are currently constrained by the limitations of vacuum tube-based photodetectors. The technology allows a level of application-specific customization and performance optimization not possible using traditional photomultiplier tube (PMT) vacuum tube technology or conventional arrays of Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiode (APDs) such as Silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). ATI's technology is flexible, and designed and patented to encompass detection of signals other than light. It could in principle be used to create new capabilities in sensing biological, chemical, and electrical signals.
"We are confident that the performance advantages of the DAPD10C Series will serve as a benchmark in photon detection, transcending current applications and replacing vacuum tube technology," said Jack N. Mayer, Executive Chairman of Amplification Technologies. "The breakthroughs reached with the DAPD10C Series are expected to provide significant advantages in scientific and medical applications."
ATI's DAPD10C Series photodetectors are capable of wide spectral response from ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths, with the ability to detect single photons and have an unusually flat spectral curve between 300 and 600 nanometers. The DAPD10C Series offers high photon detection efficiency and time parameters. These characteristics make ATI's DAPD10C Series suitable for diverse applications and markets.
An important advantage of the discrete amplification technology is its good voltage and thermal stability. It will enable the development of large detector arrays using a single power source, with array elements having only minor variations of basic parameters at the same voltage.
About Amplification Technologies Inc.
Based in New York, Amplification Technologies (ATI) seeks to transform the field of low-level signal detection. The company's patented platform semiconductor technology has the potential to offer unparalleled and far-reaching benefits to industries such as medical diagnostics, drug development, scientific instrumentation and homeland security. The technology has been successfully used to develop extremely sensitive detectors of low levels of light. The company believes its detectors will be used in many existing applications as well as open up new markets.
ATI's technology is designed and patented to encompass detection of signals other than light and could in principle be used to create new capabilities in sensing biological, chemical, and electrical signals. ATI has entered into a merger agreement with PowerSafe Technology Corp. (PWSF.OB)
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