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Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM) have been replacing traditional photomultiplier tubes in most light sensing applications. However, when large detection surface coverage is needed, photomultipliers (PMTs) are still the preferred choice. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-13 Luca Giangrande , Matthieu Heller , Yannick Favre , Teresa Montaruli

Charge Coupled Devices (CCDs) have been successfully used in several low energy X-ray astronomical satellite over the past two decades. Their high energy resolution and high spatial resolution make them an perfect tool for low energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-09 Wang YuSa , Chen Yong , Liu XiaoYan , Cui WeiWei , Xu YuPeng , Li ChengKui , Li MaoShun , Han DaWei , Chen TianXiang , Huo Jia , Wang Juan , Li Wei , Hu Wei , Zhang Yi , Lu Bo , Yin GuoHe , Zhu Yue , Zhang ZiLiang

We introduce the broadband reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) channel (BRISC) dataset. The dataset comprises measurements of channel state information (CSI) collected at 5.53 GHz using a 256-element RIS with binary states. In the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Mattia Piana , Giovanni Angelo Alghisi , Anna Valeria Guglielmi , Giovanni Perin , Francesco Gringoli , Stefano Tomasin

The basic principle of operation of silicon sensors with resistive read-out is built-in charge sharing. Resistive Silicon Detectors (RSD, also known as AC-LGAD), exploiting the signals seen on the electrodes surrounding the impact point,…

The apparatus of the ALICE experiment at CERN will be upgraded in 2017/18 during the second long shutdown of the LHC (LS2). A major motivation for this upgrade is to extend the physics reach for charmed and beauty particles down to low…

Aiming to measure the difference in arrival times of two coincident gamma-photons with an accuracy in the order of 200 ps, time-of-flight positron emission tomography systems commonly employ silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 Vanessa Nadig , David Schug , Bjoern Weissler , Volkmar Schulz

We present the first results from the HPSoC ASIC designed for readout of Ultra-fast Silicon Detectors. The 4-channel ASIC manufactured in 65 nm CMOS by TSMC has been optimized for 50 um thick AC-LGAD. The evaluation of the analog front end…

The MIT and CXC ACIS teams have explored a number of measures to ameliorate the effects of radiation damage suffered by the ACIS FI CCDs. One of these measures is a novel CCD read-out method called ``squeegee mode''. A variety of different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shanil N. Virani , Paul P. Plucinsky , Catherine E. Grant , Beverly LaMarr

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

Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is emerging as a cornerstone technology for sixth generation (6G) wireless systems, unifying connectivity and environmental mapping through shared hardware, spectrum, and waveforms. The following…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Ahmad Bazzi , Mingjun Ying , Ojas Kanhere , Theodore S. Rappaport , Marwa Chafii

The CLARO-CMOS is an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed for fast photon counting with pixellated photodetectors such as multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (Ma-PMT), micro-channel plates (MCP), and silicon…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-07-18 Paolo Carniti , Marcello De Matteis , Andrea Giachero , Claudio Gotti , Matteo Maino , Gianluigi Pessina

A MHz frame rate X-ray area detector (LPD - Large Pixel Detector) is under development by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for the European XFEL. The detector will have 1 million pixels and allows analogue storage of 512 images taken at…

The Inner Tracking System (ITS) Upgrade for the ALICE experiment at LHC is the first large-area ($\sim$10~m$^2$) silicon vertex detector based on the CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) technology, which combines sensitive volume and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-10 G. Contin

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…

In recent years, the performance of Scientifc Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) sensors has been improved signifcantly. Compared with CCD sensors, sCMOS sensors have various advantages, making them potentially better devices…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Qinyu Wu , Zhenqing Jia , Wenxin Wang , Zhixing Ling , Chen Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang , Weimin Yuan

This study presents the capabilities of the AXIS telescope in estimating redshifts from X-ray spectra alone (X-ray redshifts, XZs). Through extensive simulations, we establish that AXIS observations enable reliable XZ estimates for more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-19 Alessandro Peca , Nico Cappelluti , Stefano Marchesi , Edmund Hodges-Kluck , Adi Foord

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

To cope with environments with high levels of radiation, non-silicon semiconductors such as silicon carbide detectors are being proposed for instrumentation. 4H-SiC diodes for radiation detection have been fabricated in the IMB-CNM Clean…

This paper presents several component prototypes towards a low-latency, small-form-factor optical link designed for the ATLAS Liquid Argon Calorimeter Phase-I trigger upgrade. A prototype of the custom-made dual-channel optical transmitter…