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PerkinElmer Licenses SiPM Tech

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Health sciences and photonics company PerkinElmer Inc. of Waltham, Mass., has signed a licensing agreement with Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society, for its ultrafast, low-crosstalk solid-state silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology. Devices with SiPM technology can detect extremely low numbers of photons and can even be operated in a single-photon counting mode. SiPM boasts ultrashort response times and extremely low power consumption compared with traditional avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and is applicable to a variety of low-light level...Read full article

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