Patents Assigned to G-ray Switzerland SA
  • Patent number: 11024666
    Abstract: Monolithic CMOS integrated pixel detector (10, 20, 30, 260, 470, 570), and systems and methods are provided for the detection and imaging of electromagnetic radiation with high spectral and spatial resolution. Such detectors comprise a Si wafer with a CMOS processed readout bonded to an absorber wafer in an electrically conducting covalent wafer bond. The pixel detectors, systems and methods are used in various medical and non-medical types of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: G-ray Switzerland SA
    Inventor: Hans Von Känel
  • Patent number: 10985204
    Abstract: Oxide-free, low temperature wafer bonding permits electric current to cross the covalently bonded interface unimpeded by traps, recombination centers and unintentional, defect-induced blocking barriers when interfacial defects are passivated by hydrogen diffused from shallow implants towards the interface. Systems and methods comprising oxide-free, low temperature covalent wafer bonding with passivated interface states are used in various applications requiring reduced interfacial scattering and carrier trapping and efficient charge collection across bonded interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: G-ray Switzerland SA
    Inventor: Hans Von Känel
  • Patent number: 10636834
    Abstract: CBCT including monolithic photon counting FPD for medical applications requiring real-time 3D imaging, like mammography, interventional guided procedures or external beam radiotherapy, includes CMOS processed readout electronics monolithically integrated with a single crystalline X-ray absorber by covalent wafer bonding near room temperature and adapted for single photon counting providing high energy, temporal and spatial resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: G-ray Switzerland SA
    Inventors: Claude Meylan, Hans Von Känel
  • Patent number: 10561382
    Abstract: CBCT including monolithic photon counting FPD for medical applications requiring real-time 3D imaging, like mammography, interventional guided procedures or external beam radiotherapy, includes CMOS processed readout electronics monolithically integrated with a single crystalline X-ray absorber by covalent wafer bonding near room temperature and adapted for single photon counting providing high energy, temporal and spatial resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: G-ray Switzerland SA
    Inventors: Claude Meylan, Hans Von Känel
  • Patent number: 10163957
    Abstract: Monolithic pixel detectors, systems and methods for the detection and imaging of radiation in the form of energetic particles which may have a mass or be massless (such as X-ray photons) comprise a Si wafer with a CMOS processed readout communicating via implants for charge collection with an absorber forming a monolithic unit with the Si wafer to collect and process the electrical signals generated by radiation incident on the absorber. The pixel detectors, systems and methods are used in various medical, industrial and scientific types of applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: G-ray Switzerland SA
    Inventor: Hans Von Känel
  • Publication number: 20180240842
    Abstract: CBCT including monolithic photon counting FPD for medical applications requiring real-time 3D imaging, like mammography, interventional guided procedures or external beam radiotherapy, includes CMOS processed readout electronics monolithically integrated with a single crystalline X-ray absorber by covalent wafer bonding near room temperature and adapted for single photon counting providing high energy, temporal and spatial resolution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: G-ray Switzerland SA
    Inventors: Claude MEYLAN, Hans VON KÄNEL
  • Publication number: 20170373110
    Abstract: Monolithic pixel detectors, systems and methods for the detection and imaging of radiation in the form of energetic particles which may have a mass or be massless (such as X-ray photons) comprise a Si wafer with a CMOS processed readout communicating via implants for charge collection with an absorber forming a monolithic unit with the Si wafer to collect and process the electrical signals generated by radiation incident on the absorber. The pixel detectors, systems and methods are used in various medical, industrial and scientific types of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2015
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Applicant: G-ray Switzerland SA
    Inventor: Hans VON KÄNEL