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The paper presents the simulation studies of 10 $\mu$m pitch microstrips on a fully depleted monolithic active CMOS technology and describes their potential to provide a new and cost-effective solution for particle tracking and timing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-25 Lorenzo De Cilladi , Thomas Corradino , Gian-Franco Dalla Betta , Coralie Neubüser , Lucio Pancheri

The experimental requirements in near future accelerators (e.g. High Luminosity-LHC) has stimulated intense interest in development of detectors with high precision timing capabilities. With this as a goal, a new detection concept called…

A new generation of Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS), produced in a 65 nm CMOS imaging process, promises higher densities of on-chip circuits and, for a given pixel size, more sophisticated in-pixel logic compared to larger feature…

The development of CMOS pixel sensors with column parallel read-out and integrated zero-suppression has resulted in a full size, nearly 1 Megapixel, prototype with ~100 \mu s read-out time. Its performances are quite close to the ILD vertex…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-07-16 Christine Hu-Guo , IPHC Collaboration , IRFU Collaboration

A monolithic silicon pixel ASIC prototype, produced in 2024 as part of the Horizon 2020 MONOLITH ERC Advanced project, was tested with a 120 GeV/c pion beam. The ASIC features a matrix of hexagonal pixels with a 100 \mu m pitch, read by…

Monolithic active pixel sensors (MAPS) are now well established as a technology for tracking charged particles, especially when low material budget is desirable. For such applications, sensors focus on spatial resolution and pixels with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-28 W. Ren , J. Baudot , L. Federici , C. Finck , C. Hu-Guo , M. Kachel , C. -A. Reidel , C. Schui , R. Sefri , E. Spiriti , U. Weber , Y. Zhao

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

We present the development of the miniTimeCube (mTC), a novel compact neutrino detector. The mTC is a multipurpose detector, aiming to detect not only neutrinos but also fast/thermal neutrons. Potential applications include the…

CLIC is a proposed linear $e^+e^-$ collider with center-of-mass energies of up to 3 TeV. Its main objectives are precise top quark, Higgs boson and Beyond Standard Model physics. In addition to spatial resolutions of a few micrometers and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-10 Simon Spannagel

The MuPix7 is a prototype high voltage monolithic active pixel sensor with 103 times 80 um2 pixels thinned to 64 um and incorporating the complete read-out circuitry including a 1.25 Gbit/s differential data link. Using data taken at the…

The physics aims at the proposed future CLIC high-energy linear $e^+ e^-$ collider pose challenging demands on the performance of the detector system. In particular the vertex and tracking detectors have to combine precision measurements…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-04 Mathieu Benoit

The MALTA family of Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (DMAPS) produced in Tower 180 nm CMOS technology targets radiation hard applications for the HL-LHC and beyond. Several process modifications and front-end improvements have…

Monolithic CMOS pixel sensors offer unprecedented opportunities for fast nano-imaging through direct electron detection in transmission electron microscopy. We present the design and a full characterisation of a CMOS pixel test structure…

We present a readout chip prototype for future pixel detectors with timing capabilities. The prototype is intended for characterizing 4D pixel arrays with a pixel size of $100\times100~\mu \text{m}^2$, where the sensors are Low Gain…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-15 Matias Senger , Lea Caminada , Benjamin Kilminster , Anna Macchiolo , Beat Meier , Stephan Wiederkehr

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…

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…

The CERN RD50 collaboration develops depleted monolithic active pixel CMOS sensors for future colliders with the aim of high radiation tolerance, good time resolution, and high granularity pixel detectors. The most recent prototype, the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-12 Jory Sonneveld

The latest HV-CMOS pixel sensor developed by the former CERN-RD50-CMOS group, known as the \mpw, demonstrates competitive radiation tolerance, spatial granularity, and timing resolution -- key requirements for future high-energy physics…

We report on a large active area (15x15mm2), high channel density (470 pixels/mm2), self-triggering CMOS analog chip that we have developed as pixelized charge collecting electrode of a Micropattern Gas Detector. This device, which…

Time-of-flight measurement is an important advancement in PET scanners to improve image reconstruction with a lower delivered radiation dose. This article describes the monolithic ASIC for the TT-PET project, a novel idea for a…