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The Multi-channel Intergrated Zone-sampling Analogue-memory based Readout (MIZAR) ASIC is a new type of front-end electronics which has been developed for the detection of the optical Cherenkov signals by Extensive Air Showers directly…

A novel readout architecture that uses multiple non-destructive floating-gate amplifiers to achieve sub-electron readout noise in a thick, fully-depleted silicon detector is presented. This Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-Coupled Device…

Detectors at future high energy colliders will face enormous technical challenges. Disentangling the unprecedented numbers of particles expected in each event will require highly granular silicon pixel detectors with billions of readout…

We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable for faint object astronomical spectroscopy and low-signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Kenneth W. Lin , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Ana M. Botti , Javier Tiffenberg

The implementation of a quantum computer requires a qubit-specific measurement capability to read-out the final state of a quantum system. The model of spin dependent tunneling followed by charge readout has been highly successful in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba , A. J. Ferguson , S. Barraud , A. C. Betz

We present an innovative charge detector with high resolution and wide dynamic range designed to fulfill the requirements of a monitoring system for a high energy ion beam. The detector prototype, constructed using Si photodiodes and a…

An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), called RIGEL, designed for the sparse readout of a Silicon Pixel Drift Detector (PixDD) for space applications is presented.The low leakage current (less than 1 pA at +20 {\deg}C) and anode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-09 Massimo Gandola , Marco Grassi , Filippo Mele , Irisa Dedolli , Piero Malcovati , Giuseppe Bertuccio

Single electron Sensitive Read Out (SiSeRO) is a novel on-chip charge detector output stage for charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors. Developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, this technology uses a p-MOSFET transistor with a depleted…

This paper presents the NSX front-end ASIC, being developed to read charge signals from the HEMA and WFM X-ray detectors for the STROBE-X mission. The ASIC reads out signals from up to 64 anodes of linear Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs).…

The first generation of Single electron Sensitive Read Out (SiSeRO) amplifiers, employed as on-chip charge detectors for charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have demonstrated excellent noise and spectral performance: a responsivity of around 800…

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project has been proposed for the survey and study of cosmic rays. In the LHAASO project, the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is one of major detectors for searching gamma ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Weihao Wu , Lei Zhao , Yu Liang , Li Yu , Jianfeng Liu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

X-ray Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been the workhorse for soft X-ray astronomical instruments for the past quarter century. They provide broad energy response, extremely low electronic read noise, and good energy resolution in soft…

A scalable readout system (SRS) is designed to provide a general solution for different micro-pattern gas detectors. The system mainly consists of three kinds of modules: the ASIC card, the Adapter card and the Front-End Card (FEC). The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-06-16 Qi-Bin Zheng , Shu-Bin Liu , Jing Tian , Cheng Li , Chang-Qing Feng , Qi An

Muon imaging technology is an innovative imaging technique that can be applied in volcano imaging, heavy nuclear material detection, and archaeological research. The Micromegas detector is a promising choice for muon imaging due to its high…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-28 Ting Wang , Yu Wang , Zhihang Yao , Yulin Liu , Changqing Feng , Zhiyong Zhang , Shubin Liu

We have constructed and tested a 2d position sensitive parallel-plate gas ionization chamber with scanned charge transfer readout. The scan readout method described here is based on the development of a new position dependent charge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Gomez , A. Iglesias , R. Lobato , J. Mosquera , J. Pardo , J. Pena , A. Pazos , M. Pombar , A. Rodriguez

In MicroPattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) when the pixel size is below 100 micron and the number of pixels is large (above 1000) it is virtually impossible to use the conventional PCB read-out approach to bring the signal charge from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Bellazzini , F. Angelini , L. Baldini , F. Bitti , A. Brez , L. Latronico , M. M. Massai , M. Minuti , N. Omodei , M. Razzano , C. Sgro , G. Spandre , E. Costa , P. Soffitta

The Single electron Sensitive Read Out (SiSeRO) is a novel on-chip charge detector output stage for charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors. Developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, this technology uses a p-MOSFET transistor with a depleted…

We evaluate the performances of a 100 um-thick silicon strip detector (SSD) with a 300 MeV proton beam and a 90Sr beta-ray source. Signals from the SSD have been read out using a VLSI chip. Common-mode noise, signal separation efficiency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Hotta , M. Fujiwara , T. Kinashi , Y. Kuno , M. Kuss , T. Matsumura , T. Nakano , S. Sekikawa , H. Tajima

We present our latest ASIC, which is used for the readout of Cadmium Telluride double-sided strip detectors (CdTe DSDs) and high spectroscopic imaging. It is implemented in a 0.35 um CMOS technology (X-Fab XH035), consists of 64 readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-02 Tenyo Kawamura , Tadashi Orita , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Shin Watanabe , Hirokazu Ikeda , Tadayuki Takahashi

Metallic magnetic micro-calorimeters (MMCs) operated at millikelvin temperature offer the possibility to achieve eV-scale energy resolution with high stopping power for X-rays and massive particles in an energy range up to several tens of…