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Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM) have been replacing traditional photomultiplier tubes in most light sensing applications. However, when large detection surface coverage is needed, photomultipliers (PMTs) are still the preferred choice. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-13 Luca Giangrande , Matthieu Heller , Yannick Favre , Teresa Montaruli

A complete dedicated electronics, from front-end to back-end, was developed to instrument a MIMAC prototype. A front end ASIC able to monitor 64 strips of pixels and to provide their individual "Time Over Threshold" information has been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-20 O. Bourrion , G. Bosson , C. Grignon , J. P. Richer , O. Guillaudin , F. Mayet , J. Billard , D. Santos

Reconfigurable photonic integrated circuits (PICs) can implement arbitrary operations and signal processing functionalities directly in the optical domain. Run-time configuration of these circuits requires an electronic control layer to…

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is designed for high energy gamma ray and cosmic ray detection. A Water Cherenkov Detector Array which is sensitive to gamma ray showers above a few hundred GeV is proposed to survey…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-14 Jianfeng Liu , Lei Zhao , Li Yu , Yu Liang , Jiajun Qin , Yunfang Yang , Weihao Wu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

We present a 22 nm FD-SOI (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation of a novel soft-output Gram-domain block coordinate descent (GBCD) data detector for massive multi-user (MU)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zixiao Li , Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Oscar Castañeda , Christoph Studer

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 work presents the 8-channel FastIC+, a low-power consumption and highly configurable multi-channel front-end ASIC with internal digitization, for the readout of photo-sensors with picosecond time resolution and intrinsic gain. This…

We designed a versatile analog front-end chip, called LTARS, for TPC-applications, primarily targeted at dual-phase liquid Ar-TPCs for neutrino experiments and negative-ion $\mu$-TPCs for directional dark matter searches. Low-noise…

In this paper the PreAmplifier ShAper (PASA) for the Time Projection Chamber (TPC) of the ALICE experiment at LHC is presented. The ALICE TPC PASA is an ASIC that integrates 16 identical channels, each consisting of Charge Sensitive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-03-19 H. K. Soltveit , J. Stachel , P. Braun-Munzinger , L. Musa , H. A. Gustafsson , U. Bonnes , H. Oeschler , L. Osterman , S. Lang

This paper presents the design and characterisation of a front-end prototype ASIC for the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector, which is planned for the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC. This prototype, called ALTIROC1, consists of a…

Three generations of full-custom analog integrated circuits designed for low-power, high-speed sampling of Radio-Frequency (RF) transients in excess of the Nyquist minimum have been developed. These 0.25$\mu m$ CMOS devices are denoted the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 G. S. Varner , L. L. Ruckman , J. W. Nam , R. J. Nichol , J. Cao , P. W. Gorham , M. Wilcox

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

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 monolithic silicon pixel prototype produced for the MONOLITH ERC Advanced project was irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 10^16 1 MeV n_eq/cm^2. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with 100 {\mu}m pitch,…

We have designed three ASICs for possible applications in the optical links of a new layer of pixel detector in the ATLAS experiment for the first phase of the LHC luminosity upgrade. The ASICs include a high-speed driver for the VCSEL, a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-24 K. K. Gan , H. P. Kagan , R. D. Kass , J. R. Moore , D. S. Smith

This paper describes the design and testing results of an 8 channels preamplifier-discriminator circuit based on a resistive feedback Transimpedance Amplifier architecture and a Leading-Edge Discriminator stage for fast high-accuracy time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-10-26 Abderrahmane Ghimouz , Fatah Ellah Rarbi , Olivier Rossetto

We have developed a new set of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) of the TARGET family (CTC and CT5TEA), designed for the readout of signals from photosensors in cameras of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) for…

A new application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the high-speed charge-to-time converter (QTC) IWATSU CLC101, provides three channels, each consisting of preamplifier, discriminator, low-pass filter, and charge integration circuitry,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-03-01 H. Nishino , K. Awai , Y. Hayato , S. Nakayama , K. Okumura , M. Shiozawa , A. Takeda , K. Ishikawa , A. Minegishi , Y. Arai

All-digital millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) receivers enable extreme data rates but require high power consumption. In order to reduce power consumption, this paper presents the first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-26 Oscar Castañeda , Zachariah Boynton , Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Shimin Huang , Jamie C. Ye , Alyosha Molnar , Christoph Studer

Compton telescopes based on semiconductor technologies are being developed to explore the gamma-ray universe in an energy band 0.1--20 MeV, which is not well covered by the present or near-future gamma-ray telescopes. The key feature of…