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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…

We report on the development and demonstration of a MHz frequency domain multiplexing (FDM) technology to read out arrays of cryogenic transition edge sensor (TES) X-ray microcalorimeters. In our FDM scheme, TESs are AC-biased at different…

We present the development of a Skipper Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) focal plane prototype for the SOAR Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (SIFS). This mosaic focal plane consists of four 6k $\times$ 1k, 15 $\mu$m pixel Skipper CCDs…

Thorough numerical simulations were run to test the performance of three processing methods of the data coming out from an electron multiplying charge coupled device (EMCCD), or low light level charge coupled device (L3CCD), operated at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olivier Daigle , Claude Carignan , Sebastien Blais-Ouellette

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project has been proposed for the survey and study of cosmic rays. In the LHAASO project, the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA) is one of major detectors for searching gamma ray…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-20 Weihao Wu , Lei Zhao , Yu Liang , Li Yu , Jianfeng Liu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

In this work, a 3.5 GS/s voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) using multi-stage noise shaping (MASH) is presented. This 28nm CMOS ADC achieves second-order noise shaping in an easily-scalable, open-loop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-24 Brendan Saux , Jonas Borgmans , Johan Raman , Pieter Rombouts

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

We have constructed and tested a 2d position sensitive parallel-plate gas ionization chamber with scanned charge transfer readout. The scan readout method described here is based on the development of a new position dependent charge…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Gomez , A. Iglesias , R. Lobato , J. Mosquera , J. Pardo , J. Pena , A. Pazos , M. Pombar , A. Rodriguez

High channel density and space restrictions required that the front end electronics integrated into the active elements of calorimeter. For that purpose novel readout chain base on Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-19 Elmaddin Guliyev

Monolithic CMOS pixel detectors have emerged as competitive contenders in the field of high-energy particle physics detectors. By utilizing commercial processes they offer high-volume production of such detectors. A series of prototypes has…

This paper presents the design and characterisation of a front-end prototype ASIC for the ATLAS High Granularity Timing Detector, which is planned for the High-Luminosity phase of the LHC. This prototype, called ALTIROC1, consists of a…

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is designed for high energy gamma ray and cosmic ray detection. A Water Cherenkov Detector Array which is sensitive to gamma ray showers above a few hundred GeV is proposed to survey…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-14 Jianfeng Liu , Lei Zhao , Li Yu , Yu Liang , Jiajun Qin , Yunfang Yang , Weihao Wu , Shubin Liu , Qi An

Dynamic light scattering techniques are routinely used for numerous industrial and research applications, because they can give access to the motion spectrum of micro- and nano-objects, and therefore to particle sizes or visco-elastic…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-22 Guillaume Graciani , John T. King , Francois Amblard

Swept Charge Devices (SCD) are novel X-ray detectors optimized for improved spectral performance without any demand for active cooling. The Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS) experiment onboard the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft used an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-01 P. S. Athiray , P. Sreekumar , S. Narendranath , J. P. D. Gow

We designed, produced, and tested RSD (Resistive AC-Coupled Silicon Detectors) devices, an evolution of the standard LGAD (Low-Gain Avalanche Diode) technology where a resistive n-type implant and a coupling dielectric layer have been…

We report on the performance of ultra low noise differential photodetectors especially designed for probing of atomic ensembles with weak light pulses. The working principle of the detectors is described together with the analysis…

We present the prototype of a time-to-digital (TDC) ASIC for the upgrade of the ATLAS Monitored Drift Tube (MDT) detector for high-luminosity LHC operation. This ASIC is based on a previously submitted demonstrator ASIC designed for timing…

The SPLENDOR Collaboration studies novel narrow-gap semiconductors and engineered a substrate agnostic detector platform to achieve $\mathcal{O}$(meV) energy sensitivity designed for low mass dark matter searches. This was achieved using…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-10-03 Jadyn Anczarski , Owen Andrews , Taylor Aralis , Caleb Fink , Noah Kurinsky , Arran Phipps , Aditi Pradeep , Betty A. Young

Physical principles of performance and main characteristics of a novel avalanche photodetector developed on the basis of MOS(metal-oxide-silicon) technology is presented. The photodetector contains a semitransparent gate electrode and a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Ya. Sadygov , M. K. Suleimanov , T. Yu. Bokova

We report the design and characterization of a CMOS pixel direct charge sensor, Topmetal-II-, fabricated in a standard 0.35um CMOS Integrated Circuit process. The sensor utilizes exposed metal patches on top of each pixel to directly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-23 Mangmang An , Chufeng Chen , Chaosong Gao , Mikyung Han , Rong Ji , Xiaoting Li , Yuan Mei , Quan Sun , Xiangming Sun , Kai Wang , Le Xiao , Ping Yang , Wei Zhou