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We present the design and testing of a prototype multiplexing kinetic inductance detector (KID) readout electronics for the PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) space mission. PRIMA is a Probe-class astrophysics mission…

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 skipper CCD is a special type of charge coupled device in which the readout noise can be reduced to sub-electron levels by averaging independent measurements of the same charge. Thus the charge in the pixels can be determined by…

The rapid development of superconducting quantum hardware is expected to run into significant I/O restrictions due to the need for large-scale error correction in a cryogenic environment. Classical data centers rely on fiber-optic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Georg Arnold , Thomas Werner , Rishabh Sahu , Lucky N. Kapoor , Liu Qiu , Johannes M. Fink

Hybrid silicon pixel detectors are currently used in the innermost tracking system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment. Radiation tolerance up to fluences expected for a few years of running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-10-07 Gemma Tinti

We report on the solution optimized for characterizing SNSPDs by rejecting electromagnetic interference from various sources. The proposed readout method enhances measurement stability and enables reliable device characterization at low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-07 Sangbaek Lee , Whitney Armstrong , Maximo DiPreta , Jacob Dulya , Valentine Novosad , Tomas Polakovic

This article presents the readout electronics of a novel beam monitoring system for ion research facility accelerator. The readout electronics are divided into Front-end Card (FEC) and Readout Control Unit (RCU). FEC uses Topmetal II minus…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-02-18 Honglin Zhang , Haibo Yang , Xianqin Li , Yuezhao Zhang , Xiangming Sun , Dong Wang , Ran Huang , Yao Wang , Wei Zhou , Chengxin Zhao

Quantum computing technology is maturing at a relentless pace, yet individual quantum bits are wired one by one. As quantum processors become more complex, they require efficient interfaces to deliver signals for control and readout while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 S. Schaal , A. Rossi , S. Barraud , J. J. L. Morton , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba

The electronics used in the data readout and triggering system for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at CERN are exposed to high radiation levels. This radiation can cause…

The determination of the absolute scale of the neutrino masses is one of the most challenging questions in particle physics. Different approaches are followed to achieve a sensitivity on neutrino masses in the sub-eV range. Among them,…

High precision and large dynamic range measurement are required in the readout systems for the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) in Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO). This paper presents a prototype of 12-bit 40 MSPS…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-12-21 Jian-Feng Liu , Lei Zhao , Jia-Jun Qin , Yun-Fan Yang , Li Yu , Yu Liang , Shu-Bin Liu , Qi An

This paper presents performance measurements of a new readout electronics system based on silicon photomultipliers for the PHENIX electromagnetic calorimeter. Installation of the lead-scintillator Shashlik style calorimeter into the…

Image sensors with nondestructive charge readout provide single-photon or single-electron sensitivity, but at the cost of long readout times. We present a smart readout technique to allow the use of these sensors in visible-light and other…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Fernando Chierchie , Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Leandro Stefanazzi , Eduardo Paolini , Javier Tiffenberg , Juan Estrada , Gustavo Cancelo , and Sho Uemura

Scaling of multi-pixel cryogenic detectors for imaging becomes increasingly difficult with size due to complexity of readout circuitry and cryogenic constraints (thermal load from wiring). We propose and demonstrate a new readout scheme…

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Multiple-Amplifier Sensing (MAS) charge-coupled devices (CCDs) have recently been shown to be promising silicon detectors that meet noise sensitivity requirements for next generation Stage-5 spectroscopic surveys and potentially, future…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-30 Kenneth W. Lin , Abby Bault , Armin Karcher , Julien Guy , Stephen E. Holland , William F. Kolbe , Peter E. Nugent

We have designed and characterized a micro-SQUID with dispersive readout for use in low temperature scanning probe microscopy systems. The design features a capacitively shunted RF SQUID with a tunable resonance frequency from 5 to 12 GHz,…

We introduce a frequency-multiplexed readout scheme for superconducting phase qubits. Using a quantum circuit with four phase qubits, we couple each qubit to a separate lumped-element superconducting readout resonator, with the readout…

The Xilinx ZCU111 Radio Frequency System on Chip (RFSoC) is a promising solution for reading out large arrays of microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs). The board boasts eight on-chip 12-bit / 4.096 GSPS analogue-to-digital…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 Eoin Baldwin , Mario De Lucia , Colm Bracken , Gerhard Ulbricht , Oisin Creaner , Jack Piercy , Tom Ray

The readout noise for Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs) has been the main limitation when using these detectors for measuring small amplitude signals. A readout system for a new scientific, low noise CCD is presented in this paper. The Skipper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Juan Estrada , Eduardo E. Paolini , Gustavo Cancelo , Stephen E. Holland , H. Thomas Diehl