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For the Inner Tracking System 3 (ITS3) upgrade, the ALICE experiment at CERN requires monolithic active pixel sensors of dimensions up to 97~mm$\,\times\,$266~mm, occupying a large fraction of a 300 mm wafer. To manufacture such a…

The MiniCactus sensors are demonstrator sensors designed in LFoundry LF15A 150 nm technology, intended to study the performance of non amplified High Voltage High Resistivity CMOS sensors for measurement of time of arrival of charged…

During LHC Long Shutdown 3, the ALICE experiment will replace the three innermost layers of its Inner Tracking System (ITS2) with a new vertex detector, the ITS3. This new detector will be assembled using wafer-scale, stitched Monolithic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-04 Michele Rignanese

This paper presents the design and results of detailed tests of a CMOS active pixel chip for charged particle detection with in-pixel charge storage for correlated double sampling and readout in rolling shutter mode at frequencies up to 25…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-01-27 Marco Battaglia , Jean-Marie Bussat , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Piero Giubilato , Lindsay E. Glesener

A plug-and-play PhotonPix single-photon detector with a logical signal output is developed for applications requiring ultimate timing precision down to 10 ps over a wide dynamic photon flux range. The heart of the detector is an Exosens…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-24 D. A. Orlov , Y. Prokazov , E. Turbin , E. Kernen

Active Pixel Sensor (APS) technology has shown promise for next-generation vertex detectors. This paper discusses the design and testing of two generations of APS chips. Both are arrays of 128 by 128 pixels, each 20 by 20 micro-m. Each…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 H. S. Matis , F. Bieser , S. Kleinfelder , G. Rai , F. Retiere , H. G. Ritter , K. Singh , S. E. Wurzel , H. Wieman , E. Yamamoto

Samples of the monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype produced in 2022 within the framework of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project were irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 1016 neq/cm2, and then tested using a…

The CLIC Tracker Detector (CLICTD) is a monolithic pixelated sensor chip produced in a $180$ nm imaging CMOS process built on a high-resistivity epitaxial layer. The chip, designed in the context of the CLIC tracking detector study,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-07 I. Kremastiotis , R. Ballabriga , K. Dort , N. Egidos , M. Munker

Hybrid pixel single-photon-counting detectors have been successfully employed and widely used in Synchrotron radiation X-ray detection. In this paper, the silicon pixel sensors for single X-ray photon detection, which operate in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Zhen-Jie Li , Yun-Cong Jia , Ling-Fei Hu , Peng Liu , Hua-Xiang Yin

Dense tracking environments in experiments at CERN's High-Luminosity LHC and future FCC experiments call for an increased use of timing information in addition to the position measurement of pixel detectors. This adds one dimension to the…

MALTA2 is the latest full-scale prototype of the MALTA family of Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (DMAPS) produced in Tower Semiconductor 180 nm CMOS technology. In order to comply with the requirements of High Energy Physics (HEP)…

Multichip modules (MCM) with 4 single photon counting MPEC 2.3 chips bump bonded to 1.3 cm x 1.3 cm large CdTe and Si semiconductor sensors as well as to single chip pixel detectors have been successfully built and operated. The MPEC 2.3…

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…

Hybrid pixel detectors (HPDs) have been shown to be highly effective for diffraction-based and time-resolved studies in transmission electron microscopy, but their performance is limited by the fact that high-energy electrons scatter over…

Hybrid pixel sensor technology such as the Medipix3 represents a unique tool for electron imaging. We have investigated its performance as a direct imaging detector using a Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) which incorporated a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-06 J. A. Mir , R. Plackett , I. Shipsey , J. M. F. dos Santos

High resolution image sensors require electrical access to each individual pixel for signal readout. Such access is especially challenging for ultra-miniaturized pixels, for heterogeneously integrated sensing and readout layers in…

To fully exploit the HERA-II upgrade,the ZEUS experiment has installed a Micro Vertex Detector (MVD) using n-type, single-sided, silicon micro-strip sensors with capacitive charge division. The sensors have a readout pitch of 120…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Dannheim , U. Koetz , C. Coldewey , E. Fretwurst , A. Garfagnini , R. Klanner , J. Martens , E. Koffeman , H. Tiecke , R. Carlin

We design, fabricate and characterize integrated photonic routing manifolds with 10 inputs and 100 outputs using two vertically integrated planes of silicon nitride waveguides. We analyze manifolds via top-view camera imaging. This…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Jeff Chiles , Sonia M. Buckley , Sae Woo Nam , Richard P. Mirin , Jeffrey M. Shainline

A parametric simulation tool for pixel sensors is presented. A realistic pixel response is simulated purely based on measurement input, without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying manufacturing process. As such, it provides an…

To cope with the higher occupancy and radiation damage at the HL-LHC also the LHC experiments will be upgraded. The ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project (PPS) is an international collaboration of 17 institutions and more than 80…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Philipp Weigell