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Imaging in a broad light-intensity regime with a high signal-to-noise ratio is a key capability in fields as diverse as Quantum Metrology and Astronomy. Achieving high signal-to-noise ratios in quantum imaging leads to surpassing the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-27 Q. Pears Stefano , A. G. Magnoni , J. Estrada , C. Iemmi , D. Rodrigues , J. Tiffenberg

We present a candidate sensor for future spectroscopic applications, such as a Stage-5 Spectroscopic Survey Experiment or the Habitable Worlds Observatory. This type of charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor features multiple in-line amplifiers…

The Skipper CCD-in-CMOS Parallel Read-Out Circuit V2 (SPROCKET2) is designed to enable high frame rate readout of Skipper CCD-in-CMOS image sensors. The SPROCKET2 pixel is fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process and occupies a 60$\mu$m $\times$…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-24 Adam Quinn , Farah Fahim , Davide Braga

A novel readout architecture that uses multiple non-destructive floating-gate amplifiers to achieve sub-electron readout noise in a thick, fully-depleted silicon detector is presented. This Multi-Amplifier Sensing Charge-Coupled Device…

We present the prototype module of our extendible and robust multichannel SQUID magnetometer system. A multi-module arrangement can be implemented by using up to 7 modules. It is intended for high-precision measurements of biomagnetism and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-29 Jan-Hendrik Storm , Dietmar Drung , Martin Burghoff , Rainer Körber

The MIDNA application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are a series of skipper-CCD readout chips fabricated in a 65 nm low-power CMOS process that implement a correlated double sampling signal processing chain based on dual-slope…

Charge Coupled Devices (CCD) are used for reactor neutrino experiments and already shown their potential in constraining new physics models. The prospect of a Skipper-CCD experiment looking for standard and beyond standard model physics…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-08 E. Depaoli , D. Rodrigues , I. Sidelnik , P. Bellino , A. Botti , D. Delgado , M. Cababie , F. Chierchie , J. Estrada , G. Fernandez Moroni , S. Perez , J. Tiffenberg

The readout system with a high multiplexing ratio has become a bottleneck limiting the application of large-scale Transition Edge Sensor (TES) detector arrays. In recent years, the microwave superconducting quantum interference device…

Neural interfaces advance neuroscience research and therapeutic innovations by accurately measuring neuronal activity. However, recording raw data from numerous neurons results in substantial amount of data and poses challenges for wireless…

Understanding and characterizing very low-energy ($\sim$eV) background sources is a must in rare-event searches. Oscura, an experiment aiming to probe electron recoils from sub-GeV dark matter using a 10-kg skipper-CCD detector, has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-06-27 S. E. Perez , B. A. Cervantes-Vergara , J. Estrada , S. Holland , D. Rodrigues , J. Tiffenberg

Recent advances in the development of cryogenic particle detectors such as magnetic microcalorimeters (MMCs) allow the fabrication of sensor arrays with an increasing number of pixels. Since these detectors must be operated at the lowest…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-22 T. Muscheid , R. Gartmann , N. Karcher , F. Schuderer , M. Neidig , L. E. Ardila-Perez , M. Balzer , S. Kempf , O. Sander

With over 200 square meters of sensitive Silicon and almost 10 million readout channels, the Silicon Strip Tracker of the CMS experiment at the LHC will be the largest Silicon strip detector ever built. The design, construction and expected…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Azzurri

We present characterization results and performance of a prototype Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) silicon charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor with 16 channels potentially suitable for faint object astronomical spectroscopy and low-signal,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-11 Kenneth W. Lin , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Ana M. Botti , Javier Tiffenberg

The deployment of large cryogenic detector arrays, comprising hundreds to thousands of individual detectors, is highly beneficial for various cutting-edge applications, requiring large statistics, angular resolution or imaging capabilities.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-10 M. Neidig , T. Muscheid , R. Gartmann , L. E. Ardila Perez , M. Wegner , O. Sander , S. Kempf

The Phase-1 upgrade of the CMS pixel detector is built out of four barrel layers (BPix) and three forward disks in each endcap (FPix). It comprises a total of 124M pixel channels in 1,856 modules, and it is designed to withstand…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-10-02 Weinan Si

A radically new CCD development by Marconi Applied Technologies has enabled substantial internal gain within the CCD before the signal reaches the output amplifier. With reasonably high gain, sub-electron readout noise levels are achieved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. D. Mackay , R. N. Tubbs , R. Bell , D. Burt , I. Moody

The broad energy response, low electronic read noise, and good energy resolution have made X-ray Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) an obvious choice for developing soft X-ray astronomical instruments over the last half century. They also come…

We present experimental results using a single-electron resolution Skipper-CCD running above ground level to demonstrate the potential of this technology for its use in reactor neutrino observations and other low-energy particle interaction…