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Ensuring end-to-end security in image sensors has become essential as visual data can be exposed through multiple stages of the imaging pipeline. Advanced protection requires encryption to occur before pixel values appear on any readout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Md Rahatul Islam Udoy , Diego Ferrer , Wantong Li , Kai Ni , Sumeet Kumar Gupta , Ahmedullah Aziz

We have been developing monolithic active pixel sensors for X-rays based on the silicon-on-insulator technology. Our device consists of a low-resistivity Si layer for readout CMOS electronics, a high-resistivity Si sensor layer, and a…

Timepix and Timepix3 are hybrid pixel detectors ($256\times 256$ pixels), capable of tracking ionizing particles as isolated clusters of pixels. To efficiently analyze such clusters at potentially high rates, we introduce multiple…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-11-07 Petr Mánek , Benedikt Bergmann , Petr Burian , Lukáš Meduna , Stanislav Pospíšil , Michal Suk

A liquid isooctane (C$_{8}$H$_{18}$) filled ionization linear array for radiotherapy quality assurance has been designed, built and tested. The detector consists of 128 pixels, each of them with an area of 1.7 mm $\times$ 1.7 mm and a gap…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Pardo , L. Franco , F. Gomez , A. Iglesias , A. Pazos , J. Pena , R. Lobato , J. Mosquera , M. Pombar , J. Sendon

We have developed two radiation-hard ASICs for optical data transmission in the ATLAS pixel detector at the LHC at CERN: a driver chip for a Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) diode for 80 Mbit/s data transmission from the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 K. K. Gan

Silicon photonics (SiP) integrated coherent image sensors offer higher sensitivity and improved range-resolution-product compared to direct detection image sensors such as CCD and CMOS devices. Previous generation of SiP coherent imagers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Aroutin Khachaturian , Reza Fatemi , Ali Hajimiri

Owing to their intrinsic (geometry dependent) radiation hardness, 3D pixel sensors are promising candidates for the innermost tracking layers of the forthcoming experiment upgrades at the Phase 2 High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). To this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-01 DMS Sultan , Gian-Franco Dalla Betta , Roberto Mendicino , Maurizio Boscardin , Sabina Ronchin , Nicola Zorzi

A monolithic silicon pixel prototype produced for the MONOLITH ERC Advanced project was irradiated with 70 MeV protons up to a fluence of 1 x 10^16 1 MeV n_eq/cm^2. The ASIC contains a matrix of hexagonal pixels with 100 {\mu}m pitch,…

To cope with the higher occupancy and radiation damage at the HL-LHC also the LHC experiments will be upgraded. The ATLAS Planar Pixel Sensor R&D Project (PPS) is an international collaboration of 17 institutions and more than 80…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Philipp Weigell

The current CMS silicon pixel detector as the innermost component of the CMS experiment is performing well at LHC design luminosity, but would be subject to severe inefficiencies at LHC peak luminosities of 2x10e34 cm^-2 s^-1. Therefore, an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-15 Simon Spannagel

The CLIC Tracker Detector (CLICTD) is a monolithic pixel sensor. It is fabricated in a 180 nm CMOS imaging process, modified with an additional deep low-dose n-type implant to obtain full lateral depletion. The sensor features a small…

In this paper, a low-noise CMOS image sensor with enhanced dynamic range (DR), using an in-pixel chopping technique, is presented. The proposed in-pixel chopping technique is used to reduce the low-frequency or 1/f noise of the source…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Kapil Jainwal

Motivated by the stringent requirements of the Upstream Pixel (UP) tracker in the LHCb Upgrade II and the Inner Tracking detector (ITK) of the Circular Electron Positron Collider, the COFFEE series of pixel sensor chips have been developed…

The capacitance of the charge collection node of a sensor system is an important parameter for the design of the analog front-end electronics. The analog front-end of high-granularity sensors like for example hybrid pixel detectors need to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 H. Krüger , E. Kimmerle

As computing resource demands continue to escalate in the face of big data, cloud-connectivity and the internet of things, it has become imperative to develop new low-power, scalable architectures. Neuromorphic photonics, or photonic neural…

The ATLAS experiment will undergo a major upgrade of the tracker system in view of the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) foreseen to start around 2025. Thin planar pixel modules are promising candidates to instrument the new pixel…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-08 N. Savic , L. Bergbreiter , J. Breuer , A. La Rosa , A. Macchiolo , R. Nisius , S. Terzo

We have been developing the SOI pixel detector ``INTPIX'' for space use and general purpose applications such as the residual stress measurement of a rail and high energy physics experiments. INTPIX is a monolithic pixel detector composed…

This work presents the first measurements performed on the Timespot1 ASIC. As the second prototype developed for the TimeSPOT project, the ASIC features a 32x32 channels hybrid-pixel matrix. Targeted to space-time tracking applications in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-30 Lorenzo Piccolo , Sandro Cadeddu , Luca Frontini , Adriano Lai , Valentino Liberali , Angelo Rivetti , Alberto Stabile