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We characterize a new x-ray Mixed-Mode Pixel Array Detector (MM-PAD-2.1) Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Using an integrating pixel front-end with dynamic charge removal architecture, the MM-PAD-2.1 ASIC extends the maximum…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-18 D. Gadkari , K. S. Shanks , H. Hu , H. T. Philipp , M. W. Tate , J. Thom-Levy , S. M. Gruner

Scientific detectors are a key technological enabler for many disciplines. Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are used for many of these scientific detectors. Until recently, pixel detector ASICs have been used mainly for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-18 Sebastian Strempfer , Kazutomo Yoshii , Mike Hammer , Dawid Bycul , Antonino Miceli

Future strategic X-ray missions, such as the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) and those targeted by the Great Observatories Maturation Program (GOMaP), require fast, low-noise X-ray imaging spectrometers. To achieve the speed and…

Gotthard-II is a silicon microstrip detector developed for the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL.EU). Its potential scientific applications include X-ray absorption/emission spectroscopy, hard X-ray high resolution single-shot…

This contribution presents a pragmatic approach to read-out electronics for drift chambers used in particle physics experiments, specifically for the R3B experiment at GSI. The design uses discrete miniature SMD components and LVDS inputs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-06 Michael Wiebusch , Henning Heggen , Michael Heil

A front-end readout electronics system has been developed for silicon strip detectors. The system uses an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) ATHED to realize multi-channel E&T measurement. The slow control of ASIC chips is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-13 Yi Qian , Hong Su , Jie Kong , Cheng-Fu Dong , Xiao-Li Ma , Xiao-Gang Li

The HERMES-TP/SP mission, based on a nanosatellite constellation, has very stringent constraints of sensitivity and compactness, and requires an innovative wide energy range instrument. The instrument technology is based on the "siswich"…

Joint progresses in Cd(Zn)Te detectors, microelectronics and interconnection technologies open the way for a new generation of instruments for physics and astrophysics applications in the energy range from 1 to 1000 keV. Even working…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Limousin , O. Gevin , F. Lugiez , R. Chipaux , E. Delagnes , B. Dirks , B. Horeau

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

A readout electronics used in space cosmic-ray charges measurement for multi-channel silicon detector and its performance test results are introduced in this paper. A 64-channel charge sensitive ASIC (VA140) from IDEAS company is adopt in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-12 Zhang Fei , Fan Rui-Rui , Peng Wen-Xi , Dong Yi-Fan , Gong Ke , Liang Xiao-Hua , Liu Ya-Qing , Wang Huan-Yu

The basic principle of operation of silicon sensors with resistive read-out is built-in charge sharing. Resistive Silicon Detectors (RSD, also known as AC-LGAD), exploiting the signals seen on the electrodes surrounding the impact point,…

The silicon-strip tracker of the China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES) consists of two double-sided silicon strip detectors (DSSDs) which provide incident particle tracking information. The low-noise analog ASIC VA140 was used in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-20 Da-Li Zhang , Hong Lu , Huan-Yu Wang , Xin-Qiao Li , Yan-Bing Xu , heng-Hua An , Xiao-xia Yu , Hui Wang , Feng Shi , Ping Wang , Xiao-Yun Zhao

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) is a NASA probe class mission concept designed to deliver arcsecond resolution with an effective area ten times that of Chandra (at launch). The AXIS focal plane features an MIT Lincoln Laboratory…

We are developing position sensitive silicon detectors (PSDs) which have an electrode at each of four corners so that incident position of a charged particle can be obtained with signal from the electrodes. It is expected that the position…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-05-28 Y. Uesugi , R. Mori , H. Yamashiro , T. Suehara , T. Yoshioka , K. Kawagoe

We report on the design, production, and testing of advanced double-sided silicon strip detectors under development at the Max-Planck-Institute as part of the Medium Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy (MEGA) project. The detectors are designed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. F. Bloser , F. Schopper , R. Andritschke , G. Kanbach , A. Zoglauer , P. Lechner

In order to achieve the driver function for several types of scientific CCD detector from E2V Co Ltd, and decreasing the size of electronics of CCD detector system, an Application-specified Integrated Circuit (ASIC) was designed. It…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-04 Jie Gao , Dong-xu Yang , Yi Feng , Guang-yu Zhang , Wen-qing Qu , Jian-min Wang , Hong-fei Zhang , Jian Wang

The continued advancements of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) have made them viable photosensors for low recoil energy Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) between fast neutron and gamma interactions when coupled to an appropriate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-01 B. Boxer , B. Godfrey , C. Grace , J. Johnson , R. Khandwala , M. Tripathi

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