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Deploying Vision Transformers (ViTs) on near-sensor analog accelerators demands training pipelines that are explicitly aligned with device-level noise and energy constraints. We introduce a compact framework for silicon-photonic execution…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xuming Chen , Deniz Najafi , Chengwei Zhou , Pietro Mercati , Arman Roohi , Mohsen Imani , Mahdi Nikdast , Shaahin Angizi , Gourav Datta

Multi-pixel fast silicon detectors represent the enabling technology for the next generation of space-borne experiments devoted to high-resolution spectral-timing studies of low-flux compact cosmic sources. Several imaging detectors based…

Future X-ray astrophysics missions will survey large areas of the sky with unparalleled sensitivity, enabled by lightweight, high-resolution optics. These optics inherently produce curved focal surfaces with radii as small as 2 m, requiring…

While the successful launch and operation in space of the Gas Pixel Detectors onboard the PolarLight cubesat and the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer demonstrate the viability and the technical soundness of this class of detectors for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-07 M. Minuti , L. Baldini , R. Bellazzini , A. Brez , M. Ceccanti , F. Krummenacher , L. Latronico , L. Lucchesi , A. Manfreda , L. Orsini , M. Pinchera , A. Profeti , C. Sgr`o , G. Spandre

The success of the SWIFT/BAT and INTEGRAL missions has definitely opened a new window for follow-up and deep study of the transient gamma-ray sky. This now appears as the access key to important progresses in the area of cosmological…

A new approach was developed for the design of front-end circuits for semiconductor radiation detectors. The readout scheme consists of a first stage made of only a few components located close to the detector, and of a remote second stage…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-09-02 L. Cassina , C. Cattadori , A. Giachero , C. Gotti , M. Maino , G. Pessina

Scientific CMOS image sensors are a modern alternative for a typical CCD detectors, as they offer both low read-out noise, large sensitive area, and high frame rates. All these makes them promising devices for a modern wide-field sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Sergey Karpov , Armelle Bajat , Asen Christov , Michael Prouza , Grigory Beskin

Recent scientific and technological advances have enabled the detection of gravitational waves, autonomous driving, and the proposal of a communications network on the Moon (Lunar Internet or LunaNet). These efforts are based on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Jaime Gonzalo Flor Flores , Talha Yerebakan , Wenting Wang , Mingbin Yu , Dim-Lee Kwong , Andrey Matsko , Chee Wei Wong

Neutral atom quantum computers hold promise for scaling up to hundreds of thousands or more qubits, but their progress is constrained by slow qubit readout. Parallel measurement of qubit arrays currently takes milliseconds, much longer than…

We present an innovative charge detector with high resolution and wide dynamic range designed to fulfill the requirements of a monitoring system for a high energy ion beam. The detector prototype, constructed using Si photodiodes and a…

The challenging deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer Vision (CV) algorithms at the edge pushes the community of embedded computing to examine heterogeneous System-on-Chips (SoCs). Such novel computing platforms provide…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Vasileios Leon , Panagiotis Minaidis , George Lentaris , Dimitrios Soudris

Detectors based on pixels with timing capabilities are gaining increasing importance in the last years. Next-to-come high-energy physics experiments at colliders requires the use of time information in tracking, due to the increasing levels…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-25 Adriano Lai , Gian Matteo Cossu

In the last years, high-resolution time tagging has emerged as the tool to tackle the problem of high-track density in the detectors of the next generation of experiments at particle colliders. Time resolutions below 50ps and event average…

The Skipper-in-CMOS image sensor integrates the non-destructive readout capability of Skipper Charge Coupled Devices (Skipper-CCDs) with the high conversion gain of a pinned photodiode in a CMOS imaging process, while taking advantage of…

The SemiConductor Tracker (SCT) together with the Pixel detector and the Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT) form the central tracking system of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC. It consists of single-sided microstrip silicon sensors, which…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-14 Vasiliki A. Mitsou

We have developed a photon counting detector system for combined neutron and gamma radiography which can determine position, time and intensity of a secondary photon flash created by a high-energy particle or photon within a scintillator…

The ATLAS Collaboration will upgrade its semiconductor pixel tracking detector with a new Insertable B-layer (IBL) between the existing pixel detector and the vacuum pipe of the Large Hadron Collider. The extreme operating conditions at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-11 The ATLAS IBL Collaboration

We present the development of a second generation digital readout system for photon counting microwave kinetic inductance detector (MKID) arrays operating in the optical and near-IR wavelength bands. Our system retains much of the core…

There is a growing need to assist radiologists in performing X-ray readings and diagnoses fast, comfortably, and effectively. As radiologists strive to maximize productivity, it is essential to consider the impact of reading rooms in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Catarina Moreira , Isabel Blanco Nobre , Sandra Costa Sousa , João Madeiras Pereira , Joaquim Jorge

An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), called RIGEL, designed for the sparse readout of a Silicon Pixel Drift Detector (PixDD) for space applications is presented.The low leakage current (less than 1 pA at +20 {\deg}C) and anode…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-09 Massimo Gandola , Marco Grassi , Filippo Mele , Irisa Dedolli , Piero Malcovati , Giuseppe Bertuccio