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We have developed a position-sensitive scintillation camera with a large area absorber for use as an advanced Compton gamma-ray camera. At first we tested GSO(Ce) crystals. We compared light output from the GSO(Ce) crystals under various…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Nishimura , K. Hattori , H. Kubo , T. Tanimori

An imaging technique with sensitivity to short duration optical transients is described. The technique is based on the use of wide-field cameras operating in a drift scanning mode, whereby persistent objects produce trails on the sensor and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Steven Tingay

We have realised a simple prototype system to perform searches for short timescale optical transients, utilising the novel drift scan imaging technique described by Tingay (2020). We used two coordinated and aligned cameras, with an overlap…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 S. J. Tingay , W. Joubert

We propose a joint TDC and multi-time-gated imaging single-photon avalanche diode LiDAR sensor featuring a maximum detection range of 108m with a minimum depth resolution (least significant bit) of 2.93mm, fabricated in 110nm CMOS…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-23 Chang Liu , Edoardo Charbon

Computerized tomography (CT) has been used for decades by medical professionals to detect and diagnose injuries and ailments. CT scanners are based on interesting physics, but due to their bulk, cost, and safety, hands on experience with a…

Physics Education · Physics 2021-01-28 Vincent Daley , Owen Paetkau , Mark Paetkau

This work presents the 8-channel FastIC+, a low-power consumption and highly configurable multi-channel front-end ASIC with internal digitization, for the readout of photo-sensors with picosecond time resolution and intrinsic gain. This…

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

Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) is a key enabler for next-generation wireless systems. However, real-world deployment is often limited to low-cost, single-antenna transceivers. In such bistatic Single-Input Single-Output (SISO)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Kai Wu , Min Xu , Y. Jay Guo

This work verifies the instrumental characteristics of the CCD detector which is part of the UNI astronomical observatory. We measured the linearity of the CCD detector of the SBIG STXL6303E camera, along with the associated gain and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-16 Antonio Pereyra , Maria I. Zevallos , Jose Ricra , Julio C. Tello

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

Within the ATTRACT FASTPIX project, a monolithic pixel sensor demonstrator chip has been developed in a modified 180 nm CMOS imaging process technology, targeting sub-nanosecond timing precision for single ionising particles. It features a…

CMOS Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (CPS) are ultra-light and highly granular silicon pixel detectors suited for highly sensitive charged particle tracking. Being manufactured with cost efficient standard CMOS processes, CPS may integrate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-29 M. Deveaux

We present the first characterization results of Timespot1, an ASIC designed in CMOS 28 nm technology, featuring a $32 \times 32$ pixel matrix with a pitch of $55 ~ \mu m$. Timespot1 is the first small-size prototype, conceived to readout…

This paper presents a fully-integrated CMOS temperature sensor for densely-distributed thermal monitoring in systems on chip supporting dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. The sensor front-end exploits a sub-threshold PMOS-based circuit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Benjamin Zambrano , Esteban Garzón , Sebastiano Strangio , Giuseppe Iannaccone , Marco Lanuzza

The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) is a NASA funded Small Explorer (SMEX) mission slated to launch in 2027. COSI will house a wide-field gamma-ray telescope designed to survey the entire sky in the 0.2--5 MeV range. Using germanium…

Many future small satellite missions are aimed to provide low-cost remote sensing data at unprecedented revisit rates, with a ground resolution of less than one meter. This requires high resolution, fast and sensitive line-scan imagers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-30 Swaraj Bandhu Mahato , Steven Thijs , Jonas Bentell , Linkun Wu , Klaas Tack , Pierre Boulenc , Dorian Lasnet , Renaud Van Langendonck , Piet De Moor

The Simons Observatory (SO) is an upcoming polarized cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey experiment with three small-aperture telescopes and one large-aperture telescope that will observe from the Atacama Desert in Chile. In total, SO…

The ALICE collaboration is preparing an upgrade of the three innermost layers of the current Inner Tracking System (ITS) during the next LHC long shutdown (LS3). The new ITS detector will use wafer-scale (up to \SI{27}{cm} in length)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-01-29 Stefania Perciballi

The Antarctic TianMu Staring Observation Program is a time-domain optical sky survey project carried out in Antarctica, capable of large sky coverage, high-cadence sampling, and long-period staring. It utilizes the exceptional observing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Hubiao Niu , Jing Zhong , Yu Zhang , Jianchun Shi , Rui Rong , Jinzhong Liu , Shiyin Shen , Zhenghong Tang , Dan Zhou

The Prime-Cam instrument of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) at the CCAT Observatory will conduct sensitive millimeter to submillimeter surveys for a range of astrophysical and cosmological sciences. Prime-Cam will use kinetic…