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We present our latest ASIC, which is used for the readout of Cadmium Telluride double-sided strip detectors (CdTe DSDs) and high spectroscopic imaging. It is implemented in a 0.35 um CMOS technology (X-Fab XH035), consists of 64 readout…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-02 Tenyo Kawamura , Tadashi Orita , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Shin Watanabe , Hirokazu Ikeda , Tadayuki Takahashi

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 superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) is a leading technology for quantum information science applications using photons, and they are finding increasing uses in photon-starved classical imaging applications. Critical…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Clinton Cahall , Daniel J. Gauthier , Jungsang Kim

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…

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

This paper presents the NSX front-end ASIC, being developed to read charge signals from the HEMA and WFM X-ray detectors for the STROBE-X mission. The ASIC reads out signals from up to 64 anodes of linear Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs).…

The readout electronics upgrade for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeters at the CERN Large Hadron Collider requires a radiation-hard ADC. The design of a radiation-hard dual-channel 12-bit 40 MS/s pipeline ADC for this use is presented. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-07 Jayanth Kuppambatti , Jaroslav Ban , Timothy Andeen , Rex Brown , Ryne Carbone , Peter Kinget , Gustaaf Brooilmans , William Sippach

Building upon existing signal processing techniques and open-source software, this paper presents a baseline design for an RF System-on-Chip Frequency Division Multiplexed readout for a spatio-spectral focal plane instrument based on low…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-10 Colm Bracken , Eoin Baldwin , Gerhard Ulbricht , Mario de Lucia , Tom Ray

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…

A new amplifier-shaper-discriminator (ASD) chip was designed and manufactured for the Micro Pixel Chamber ($\mu$-PIC). The design of this ASD IC is based on the ASD IC (TGC-ASD) for the Thin Gap Chamber in the LHC Atlas Experiment. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Orito , O. Sasaki , H. Kubo , K. Miuchi , T. Nagayoshi , Y. Okada , A. Takada , A. Takeda , T. Tanimori , M. Ueno

We have fabricated an array of subgap kinetic inductance detectors (SKIDs) made of granular aluminum ($T_c\sim$2~K) sensitive in the 80-90 GHz frequency band and operating at 300~mK. We measure a noise equivalent power of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-04-07 F. Levy-Bertrand , A. Benoît , O. Bourrion , M. Calvo , A. Catalano , J. Goupy , F. Valenti , N. Maleeva , L. Grünhaupt , I. M. Pop , A. Monfardini

We evaluate the performances of a 100 um-thick silicon strip detector (SSD) with a 300 MeV proton beam and a 90Sr beta-ray source. Signals from the SSD have been read out using a VLSI chip. Common-mode noise, signal separation efficiency…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Hotta , M. Fujiwara , T. Kinashi , Y. Kuno , M. Kuss , T. Matsumura , T. Nakano , S. Sekikawa , H. Tajima

We present a programmable 16 channel, mixed signal, low power readout ASIC, having the project historically named Gigasample Recorder of Analog waveforms from a PHotodetector (GRAPH). It is designed to read large aperture single photon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-14 Andrej Seljak , John Vallerga , Gang Liu , Rick Raffanti , Gary S. Varner

We report on a scanned superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) microscope operating in a cryogen-free cryostat, with the capability of up to forty RF connections with 20 GHz bandwidth to a device under test. The system utilizes…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-10 Ian W. Haygood , Bochao Xu , John Biesecker , Michael L. Schneider

In this paper a new design of MMIC based LNA is outlined. This design uses a discrete 100-nm InP HEMT placed in front of an existing InP MMIC LNA to lower the overall noise temperature of the LNA. This new approach known as the Transistor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-14 Mark A. McCulloch , Simon J. Melhuish , Lucio Piccirillo

We present a spectroscopic system constituted by a Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) coupled to a CMOS charge sensitive preamplifier, named SIRIO, specifically designed to reach ultimate low noise levels. The SDD, with an active area of 13 mm ,…

A 64-channel mixed-mode ASIC, suitable for particle detectors of large dynamic range and high capacitance up to hundreds of pF, is presented here. Each channel features an analogue front-end for signal amplification and filtering, and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 W. Cheng , F. Cossio , M. Da Rocha Rolo , A. Rivetti , Z. Wang

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…

Modern PET scanners based on scintillating crystals use solid state photo detectors for light readout. The small area of these devices is beneficial for spatial resolution, but also leads to a large number of electronic channels to be read…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-04 Peter Fischer , Michael Ritzert , Thomas Kerschenbauer

Direct-current superconducting quantum interference devices (dc-SQUIDs) are one of the most sensitive magnetic detectors. These sensors are extensively used in the readout of superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs), which are used…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Nan Li , Mengjie Song , Sixiao Hu , Wentao Wu , Songqing Liu , Tangchong Kuang , Yudong Gu , Xiangxiang Ren , Xufang Li , He Gao , Zhengwei Li , Congzhan Liu