Farhad Taghibakhsh - Publications

13. F. Taghibakhsh, A. Reznik, J. A. Rowlands, "Silicon Photomultipliers for Positron Emission Tomography Detectors with Depth of Interaction Encoding Capability", Nuclear Instruments and methods in Physics Research Section A, 2010 (in press).

12. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, G. Belev, S. O. Kasap, "X-Ray Detection using a Two-Transistor Active Pixel Sensor Array coupled to an a-Se X-Ray Photoconductor", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 51-56, January 2009.

11. I. Khodami, F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "UV Enhanced a-Si:H Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photoconductor", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 29, no.9, pp. 1007-1010, September 2008.

10. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "Charge-Gated Thin Film Transistor for High Resolution Digital Imaging", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 859-862, August 2008.

9. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "Two-Transistor Active Pixel Sensor Readout Circuits in Amorphous Silicon Technology for High Resolution Digital Imaging Applications", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 2121-2128, August 2008.

8. K. S. Karim, I. Khodami, F. Taghibakhsh, "a-Si:H Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) Photoconductor Detector for Biomolecular Imaging Applications," ESC Transactions, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 179, (2008).

7. F. Taghibakhsh, I. Khodami, K. S. Karim, "Characterization of Short Wavelength Selective a-Si:H MSM Photoconductors for Large Area Digital Imaging Applications", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 337-342, January. 2008.

6. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘High Dynamic Range 2-TFT Amplified Pixel Sensor Architecture for Digital Mammography Tomosynthesis’, Circuits Devices and Systems, IET, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 87-92, February 2007.

5. K. S. Karim, M.H. Izadi, F. Taghibakhsh, G. Sanaie, "Intelligent Pixel Architectures for Digital Medical Imaging Applications", ECS Transactions, vol. 8, no.1, pp. 289-293, July 2007.

4. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, A. Madan, ‘Low leakage a-Si:H Thin Film Transistor Deposited on Glass Using Hot-wire Chemical Vapor Deposition’, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 866-868, (2006).

3. K. S. Karim, G. Sanaie, T. Ottaviani, M. H. Izadi, F. Taghibakhsh, ‘Amplified Pixel Architectures in Amorphous Silicon Technology for Large Area Digital Imaging Applications’, Journal of Korean Physical Society, vol. 48, no. 1, (2006).

2. F. Hossein Babaei, F. Taghibakhsh, 'Electrophoretic Formation of Zinc Oxide Based NTC Resistors', International Journal of Engineering, vol. 13, no.3, pp. 75-80, September 2000.

1. F. Hossein Babaei, F. Taghibakhsh, 'Electrophoretically Deposited Zinc Oxide Resistive Thick Film Gas Sensors', IEE Electronics Letters Journal, vol.36, no. 21, pp. 1815-16, August 2000.

16. F. Taghibakhsh, D. M. Hunter, K. S. Karim, G. Belev, S. O. Kasap, V. Verpakhovski and M. J. Yaffe, "Evaluation of the X-Ray Response of Amorphous Selenium Coated 100 micron pitch a-Si Active Pixel Sensors for Tomosynthesis Applications", Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging Symposium. Physics of Medical Imaging, vol. 7258, 72581H (2009).

15. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "High Resolution Amplified Pixel Sensor Architectures for Large Area Digital Mammography Tomosynthesis," Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging symposium, Physics of Medical Imaging, vol. 6913, pp. 69133R1-9, April 2008. (Honorable Mention Poster Award).

14. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "Light Controlled Oscillator: A Pixel Architecture for Large Area Digital Imaging using Amorphous Silicon," IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1279-1282, May 2008.

13. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Two-Transistor Active Pixel Sensor for High Resolution Large Area Digital X-ray Imaging’, IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), pp. 1011-1014, 2007.

12. F. Taghibakhsh, M. M. Adachi, K. S. Karim, ‘Hot-wire Deposited Nanocrystalline Silicon TFTs on Plastic Substrates’, Proceedings of Material Research Society, vol. 989, A20-04, April 2007.

11. M. M. Adachi, F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Structural Analysis of Nanocrystalline Silicon Prepared by Hot-wire Chemical Vapor Deposition on Polymer Substrates’, Proceedings of Material Research Society, vol. 989, A22-03, April 2007.

10. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, 'Amplified Pixel Architectures for Low Dose Computed Tomography using Silicon Thin Film Technology', Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging, vol. 6510, 65103w1-8, February 2007 (Honorable Mention Poster Award).

9. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, 'Fabrication and Characterization of Nickel Silicon Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photoconductors', Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1664-1667, April 2007.

8. F. Mohamadzadeh, F. Taghibakhsh, B. Kaminska, 'Contact-less Heart Monitoring System (CHM)', Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 583-585, April 2007.

7. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Potentials of Silicon Thin Film Technology in New Applications of Computed Tomography’, Proceedings of the 29th Canadian Medical and Biomedical Engineering Conference, June 2006, in press.

6. G. Sanaie, F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Low noise, high dynamic range pixel architecture in amorphous silicon technology for diagnostic medical imaging applications’, Proceedings of the 29th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, June 2006, in press.

5. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Hot-wire CVD a-Si TFTs on Plastic Substrate’, Proceedings of Material Research Society, vol. 910, A18-02, April 2006.

4. I. Khodami, M. M. Adachi, M. Malhotra, F. Taghibakhsh, J. A. Rowlands, K. S. Karim, K. L. Kavanagh, ‘Light Induced Degradation in Amourphous Silicon Photodiodes’, Proc. SPIE 6142, 61422U, February 2006.

3. F. Taghibakhsh, F. Raisi, 'A Numeric Simulation of the Static Volt-Ampere Charachteristics of the Field Effect Diode', Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, vol.1, pp. 542-547, May 2003.

2. F. Taghibakhsh, "The Field effect Diode", Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, pp. 236 in abstract book, December 2003.

1. F. Hossein-Babaei, F. Taghibakhsh,"A new method for fabrication of resistive thick film gas sensors", 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, pp. 106 in abstract book, April 2001.


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Publications Refereed Journal Publications: 13. F. Taghibakhsh, A. Reznik, J. A. Rowlands, "Silicon Photomultipliers for Positron Emission Tomography Detectors with Depth of Interaction Encoding Capability", Nuclear Instruments and methods in Physics Research Section A, 2010 (in press). 12. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, G. Belev, S. O. Kasap, "X-Ray Detection using a Two-Transistor Active Pixel Sensor Array coupled to an a-Se X-Ray Photoconductor", IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 51-56, January 2009. 11. I. Khodami, F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "UV Enhanced a-Si:H Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photoconductor", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 29, no.9, pp. 1007-1010, September 2008. 10. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "Charge-Gated Thin Film Transistor for High Resolution Digital Imaging", IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 29, no. 8, pp. 859-862, August 2008. 9. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "Two-Transistor Active Pixel Sensor Readout Circuits in Amorphous Silicon Technology for High Resolution Digital Imaging Applications", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 2121-2128, August 2008. 8. K. S. Karim, I. Khodami, F. Taghibakhsh, "a-Si:H Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) Photoconductor Detector for Biomolecular Imaging Applications," *ESC Transactions, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 179, (2008). 7. F. Taghibakhsh, I. Khodami, K. S. Karim, "Characterization of Short Wavelength Selective a-Si:H MSM Photoconductors for Large Area Digital Imaging Applications", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 337-342, January. 2008. 6. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘High Dynamic Range 2-TFT Amplified Pixel Sensor Architecture for Digital Mammography Tomosynthesis’, Circuits Devices and Systems, IET, vol. 1, issue 1, pp. 87-92, February 2007. 5. K. S. Karim, M.H. Izadi, F. Taghibakhsh, G. Sanaie, "Intelligent Pixel Architectures for Digital Medical Imaging Applications", ECS Transactions, vol. 8, no.1, pp. 289-293, July 2007. 4. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, A. Madan, ‘Low leakage a-Si:H Thin Film Transistor Deposited on Glass Using Hot-wire Chemical Vapor Deposition’, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films, Vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 866-868, (2006). 3. K. S. Karim, G. Sanaie, T. Ottaviani, M. H. Izadi, F. Taghibakhsh, ‘Amplified Pixel Architectures in Amorphous Silicon Technology for Large Area Digital Imaging Applications’, Journal of Korean Physical Society, vol. 48, no. 1, (2006). 2. F. Hossein Babaei, F. Taghibakhsh, 'Electrophoretic Formation of Zinc Oxide Based NTC Resistors', International Journal of Engineering, vol. 13, no.3, pp. 75-80, September 2000. 1. F. Hossein Babaei, F. Taghibakhsh, 'Electrophoretically Deposited Zinc Oxide Resistive Thick Film Gas Sensors', IEE Electronics Letters Journal, vol.36, no. 21, pp. 1815-16, August 2000. Conference Proceedings:* 21. F. Taghibakhsh, "Detectors with Silicon Photomultipliers for High Resolution PET", 2010 CMOS Emerging Technologies, Whistler, BC, May 2010 (invited). 20. S. Cuddy, A. Reznik, J. A. Rowlands, F. Taghibakhsh "Effect of scintillator crystal geometry and surface finishing on depth of interaction resolution in PET detectors: Monte Carlo simulation and experimental results using silicon photomultipliers", Proceedings of SPIE, Physics of Medical Imaging, vol. 7622, March 2010. 19. M. Y. Yazdandoost, K. W. Shin, N. Safavian, F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "Photon counting pixel and array in amorphous silicon technology for large area digital medical imaging applications", Proceedings of SPIE, Physics of Medical Imaging, vol. 7622, March 2010. 18. F. Taghibakhsh, S. Cuddy, T. Rvachov, D. Green, A. Reznik, J. A. Rowlands, "Detectrs with Dual-Ended Readout by Silicon Photomultipliers for High Resolution Positron Emission Mammography Applications", 2009 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 2821-2826, October 2009. 17. F.Taghibakhsh, T. Rvachov, A. Reznik, J. A. Rowlands, "Silicon Photomultipliers for Positron Emission Tomography Detectors with Depth of Interaction Encoding Capability", 7th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors, 11.1, June 2009. 16. F. Taghibakhsh, D. M. Hunter, K. S. Karim, G. Belev, S. O. Kasap, V. Verpakhovski and M. J. Yaffe, "Evaluation of the X-Ray Response of Amorphous Selenium Coated 100 micron pitch a-Si Active Pixel Sensors for Tomosynthesis Applications", Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging Symposium. Physics of Medical Imaging, vol. 7258, 72581H (2009). 15. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "High Resolution Amplified Pixel Sensor Architectures for Large Area Digital Mammography Tomosynthesis," Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging symposium, Physics of Medical Imaging, vol. 6913, pp. 69133R1-9, April 2008. *(Honorable Mention Poster Award). 14. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, "Light Controlled Oscillator: A Pixel Architecture for Large Area Digital Imaging using Amorphous Silicon," IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1279-1282, May 2008. 13. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Two-Transistor Active Pixel Sensor for High Resolution Large Area Digital X-ray Imaging’, IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), pp. 1011-1014, 2007. 12. F. Taghibakhsh, M. M. Adachi, K. S. Karim, ‘Hot-wire Deposited Nanocrystalline Silicon TFTs on Plastic Substrates’, Proceedings of Material Research Society, vol. 989, A20-04, April 2007. 11. M. M. Adachi, F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Structural Analysis of Nanocrystalline Silicon Prepared by Hot-wire Chemical Vapor Deposition on Polymer Substrates’, Proceedings of Material Research Society, vol. 989, A22-03, April 2007. 10. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, 'Amplified Pixel Architectures for Low Dose Computed Tomography using Silicon Thin Film Technology', Proceedings of SPIE, Medical Imaging, vol. 6510, 65103w1-8, February 2007 (Honorable Mention Poster Award)*. 9. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, 'Fabrication and Characterization of Nickel Silicon Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photoconductors', Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 1664-1667, April 2007. 8. F. Mohamadzadeh, F. Taghibakhsh, B. Kaminska, 'Contact-less Heart Monitoring System (CHM)', Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, pp. 583-585, April 2007. 7. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Potentials of Silicon Thin Film Technology in New Applications of Computed Tomography’, Proceedings of the 29th Canadian Medical and Biomedical Engineering Conference, June 2006, in press. 6. G. Sanaie, F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Low noise, high dynamic range pixel architecture in amorphous silicon technology for diagnostic medical imaging applications’, Proceedings of the 29th Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Conference, June 2006, in press. 5. F. Taghibakhsh, K. S. Karim, ‘Hot-wire CVD a-Si TFTs on Plastic Substrate’, Proceedings of Material Research Society, vol. 910, A18-02, April 2006. 4. I. Khodami, M. M. Adachi, M. Malhotra, F. Taghibakhsh, J. A. Rowlands, K. S. Karim, K. L. Kavanagh, ‘Light Induced Degradation in Amourphous Silicon Photodiodes’, Proc. SPIE 6142, 61422U, February 2006. 3. F. Taghibakhsh, F. Raisi, 'A Numeric Simulation of the Static Volt-Ampere Charachteristics of the Field Effect Diode', Proceedings of the 11th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, vol.1, pp. 542-547, May 2003. 2. F. Taghibakhsh, "The Field effect Diode", Semiconductor Device Research Symposium, pp. 236 in abstract book, December 2003. 1. F. Hossein-Babaei, F. Taghibakhsh,"A new method for fabrication of resistive thick film gas sensors", 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, pp. 106 in abstract book, April 2001.
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