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In a "hot-off-the-press" paper in Optics Express titled "Room-temperature, 96×96 pixel 3D-stacked InGaAs/InP SPAD sensor with complementary gating for flash LiDAR", Yildirim et al. from EPFL/Fraunhofer/FBH write:
A room-temperature 3D-stacked flash LiDAR sensor is presented for the short-wave infrared (SWIR). The 96×96 InGaAs-InP SPAD array in the top tier is biased by a circuit at the bottom tier that implements a complementary cascoded gating at the pixel level...

Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.12850
In a preprint titled "Accurate Simulation Pipeline for Passive Single-Photon Imaging" Suonsivu et al. write:
Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are new and promising imaging sensors. These sensors are sensitive enough to detect individual photons hitting each pixel, with extreme temporal resolution and without readout noise. Thus, SPADs stand out as an...

TheElec reported in August 2025 that Samsung plans to use its Austin, Texas fab to make sensors for future iPhones:
https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=5386
Samsung to form smartphone image sensor line in Austin for Apple

In June 2025 Canon announced an HDR SPAD sensor that performs weighted counting (as opposed to simply accumulating photon counts): https://global.canon/en/news/2025/20250612.html
Canon develops High Dynamic Range SPAD sensor with potential to detect subjects even in low-light conditions or environments with strong lighting contrasts thanks to unique technology...