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CMOS pixel sensors with a small collection electrode combine the advantages of a small sensor capacitance with the advantages of a fully monolithic design. The small sensor capacitance results in a large ratio of signal-to-noise and a low…

A prototype of the CMOS pixel sensor named SUPIX-1 has been fabricated and tested in order to investigate the feasibility of a pixelated tracker for a proposed Higgs factory, namely, the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC). The…

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We report the design and test results of a beam monitor developed for online monitoring in hadron therapy. The beam monitor uses eight silicon pixel sensors, \textit{Topmetal-${II}^-$}, as the anode array. \textit{Topmetal-${II}^-$} is a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-01-20 Zhen Wang , Shuguang Zou , Yan Fan , Jun Liu , Xiangming Sun , Dong Wang , Huili Kang , Daming Sun , Ping Yang , Hua Pei , Guangming Huang , Nu Xu , Chaosong Gao , Le Xiao

Within the ATTRACT FASTPIX project, a monolithic pixel sensor demonstrator chip has been developed in a modified 180 nm CMOS imaging process technology, targeting sub-nanosecond timing precision for single ionising particles. It features a…

Pixel sensors based on commercial high-voltage CMOS processes are an exciting technology that is considered as an option for the outer layer of the ATLAS inner tracker upgrade at the High Luminosity LHC. Here, charged particles are detected…

The Skipper-in-CMOS image sensor integrates the non-destructive readout capability of Skipper Charge Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) with the high conversion gain of a pinned photodiode in a CMOS imaging process, while taking advantage of…

The apparatus of the ALICE experiment at CERN will be upgraded in 2017/18 during the second long shutdown of the LHC (LS2). A major motivation for this upgrade is to extend the physics reach for charmed and beauty particles down to low…

MiniCACTUS-v2 is a monolithic sensor prototype designed in LF 150 nm CMOS process for time tagging of individual Minimum Ionizing Particles with an accuracy better than 100 ps. The sensing element is a deep n-well/p-substrate diode without…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-24 Y. Degerli , R. Aleksan , R. Casanova , Y. Gan , S. Grinstein , F. Guilloux , A. Hanlon , T. Hemperek , J. P. Meyer , J. Pinol , P. Schwemling , E. Vilella

Depleted p-channel field effect transistor detectors with repetitive-non-destructive readout (RNDR-DEPFETs) achieve a deep sub-electron noise by averaging several independent measurements of one single event. During the repetitive readout…

ISIS (In-situ Storage Imaging Sensor) is a novel CMOS sensor with multiple charge storage capability developed for the ILC vertex detector by the Linear Collider Flavour Identification (LCFI) collaboration. This paper reports test results…

The RD50-MPW4, a Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (DMAPS) was analyzed using a Two Photon Absortion Transient Current Technique (TPA-TCT). This technique provides sensitivity maps with micrometer-scale spatial resolution, enabling…

This paper presents the results of a study of the response of a test CMOS sensor with a radiation tolerant pixel cell design to 80 keV and 100 keV electrons. The point spread function is measured to be (13.0+/- 1.7) microns at 100 keV and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-25 Marco Battaglia , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Dionisio Doering , Velimir Radmilovic

Depleted monolithic CMOS active pixel sensors (DMAPS) have been developed in order to demonstrate their suitability as pixel detectors in the outer layers of a toroidal LHC apparatus inner tracker (ATLAS ITk) pixel detector in the…

A single-photon CMOS image sensor design based on pinned photodiode (PPD) with multiple charge transfers and sampling is described. In the proposed pixel architecture, the photogenerated signal is sampled non-destructively multiple times…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-07 Konstantin D. Stefanov , Martin Prest , Mark Downing , Elizabeth George , Naidu Bezawada , Andrew D. Holland

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

Investigation of HV-CMOS sensors for use as a tracking detector in the ATLAS experiment at the upgraded LHC (HL-LHC) has recently been an active field of research. A potential candidate for a pixel detector built in Silicon-On-Insulator…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-27 B. Hiti , V. Cindro , A. Gorišek , T. Hemperek , T. Kishishita , G. Kramberger , H. Krüger , I. Mandić , M. Mikuž , N. Wermes , M. Zavrtanik

We have been developing X-ray SOIPIXs for next-generation satellites for X-ray astronomy. Their high time resolution ($\sim10~\mu$s) and event-trigger-output function enable us to read out without pile-ups and to use anti-coincidence…

The concept of capacitive coupling between sensors and readout chips is under study for the vertex detector at the proposed high-energy CLIC electron positron collider. The CLICpix Capacitively Coupled Pixel Detector (C3PD) is an active…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-06 I. Kremastiotis , R. Ballabriga , M. Campbell , D. Dannheim , A. Fiergolski , D. Hynds , S. Kulis , I. Peric

This paper contains a compilation of parameters influencing the charge collection process extracted from a comprehensive study of partially depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors with small (<25 um$^2$) collection electrodes fabricated in…

The radiation hardness of passive CMOS pixel sensors fabricated in 150 nm LFoundry technology is investigated. CMOS process lines are especially of interest for large-scale silicon detectors as they offer high production throughput at…