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Sub-nanometer displacement detection lays the solid foundation for critical applications in modern metrology. In-plane displacement sensing, however, is mainly dominated by the detection of differential photocurrent signals from…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Miao-Hsuan Chien , Johannes Steurer , Pedram Sadeghi , Nicolas Cazier , Silvan Schmid

A monolithic pixel sensor in deep-submicron Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology has been designed, manufactured and characterised. This technology is of significant interest for applications in particle tracking and imaging. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-07-02 Marco Battaglia , Dario Bisello , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Piero Giubilato , Lindsay E. Glesener , Serena Mattiazzo , Chinh Vu

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…

Five contemporary technologies are discussed in the context of their potential roles in particle tracking for future high energy physics applications. These include sensors of the 3D configuration, in both diamond and silicon,…

Silicon tracking detectors have grown to cover larger surface areas up to hundreds of square meters, and are even taking over other sub-detectors, such as calorimeters. However, further improvements in tracking detector performance are more…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-08-09 Sungjoon Kim , Vikas Berry , Jessica Metcalfe , Anirudha V. Sumant

Accurate 3D imaging is essential for machines to map and interact with the physical world. While numerous 3D imaging technologies exist, each addressing niche applications with varying degrees of success, none have achieved the breadth of…

Silicon strip sensors have long been a reliable technology for particle detection. Here, we push the limits of silicon tracking detectors by targeting an unprecedentedly low material budget of 2%-7% $X_0$ in an 8-layer 4 m$^2$ detector…

CLIC is a proposed linear e+e- collider designed to provide particle collisions at center-of-mass energies of up to 3 TeV. Precise measurements of the properties of the top quark and the Higgs boson, as well as searches for Beyond the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-21 Simon Spannagel

A Single-Photon Detector (SPD) can detect extremely low intensity of electromagnetic wave - down to a single photon. Driven by the rapid developments in quantum information science and an increasing demand for ultra-low-light sensing across…

Pixel detectors are used in the innermost part of multi purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and are therefore exposed to the highest fluences of ionising radiation, which in this part of the detectors consists mainly of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-21 T. Rohe , J. Acosta , A. Bean , S. Dambach , W. Erdmann , U. Langenegger , C. Martin , B. Meier , V. Radicci , J. Sibille , P. Trueb

This paper presents the design of a new monolithic Silicon-On-Insulator pixel sensor in $200~nm$ SOI CMOS technology. The main application of the proposed pixel detector is the spectroscopy, but it can also be used for the minimum ionizing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-06 Szymon Bugiel , Roma Dasgupta , Sebastian Glab , Marek Idzik , Jakub Moron , Piotr Julian Kapusta , Wojciech Kucewicz , Michal Turala

Purpose: Current photon-counting computed tomography detectors are limited to a pixel size of around 0.3 mm-0.5 mm due to excessive charge sharing degrading the dose efficiency and energy resolution as the pixels become smaller. In this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Rickard Brunskog , Mats Persson , Zihui Jin , Mats Danielsson

Silicon is an extremely attractive material platform for integrated optics at telecommunications wavelengths, particularly for integration with CMOS circuits. Developing detectors and electrically pumped lasers at telecom wavelengths are…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Baehr-Jones , M. Hochberg , A. Scherer

CMOS sensors were successfully implemented in the STAR tracker [1]. LHC experiments have shown that efficient b tagging, reconstruction of displaced vertices and identification of disappearing tracks are necessary. An improved vertex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-21 Nicolas T. Fourches , Geraldine Hallais , Charles Renard

Following the first demonstration of a levitated nanosphere cooled to the quantum ground state in 2020 [1], macroscopic quantum sensors are seemingly on the horizon. The nanosphere's large mass as compared to other quantum systems enhances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-19 Markus Rademacher , James Millen , Ying Lia Li

Modern scientific instruments operate under increasingly extreme constraints on bandwidth, latency, and power. Inference at the sensor edge determines experimental data collection efficiency by deciding which information to save for further…

This paper presents a first study of the performance of a novel 2D position-sensitive microstrip detector, where the resistive charge division method was implemented by replacing the metallic electrodes with resistive electrodes made of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Bassignana , M. Fernandez , R. Jaramillo , M. Lozano , F. J. Munoz , G. Pellegrini , D. Quirion , I. Vila

Significant progress has been made to develop silicon pixel technologies for use in the vertex and tracker regions of the proposed Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) detector design. The electron-positron collisions generated by this linear…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-04-22 Morag Williams

The potential of photon detectors to achieve precise timing information is of increasing importance in many domains, PET and CT scanners in medical imaging and particle physics detectors, amongst others. The goal to increase by an order of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-11 S. Enoch , A. Gola , P. Lecoq , A. Rivetti

Image sensors hold a pivotal role in society due to their ability to capture vast amounts of information. Traditionally, image sensors are opaque due to light absorption in both the pixels and the read-out electronics that are stacked on…