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Taking advantage of the advances in array detector technology, an imaging polarimeter (IMPOL) has been constructed for measuring linear polarization in the wavelength band from 400-800 nm. It makes use of a Wollaston prism as the analyser…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 A. N. Ramaprakash , Ranjan Gupta , A. K. Sen , S. N. Tandon

Pixel detectors are used in the innermost part of multi purpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and are therefore exposed to the highest fluences of ionising radiation, which in this part of the detectors consists mainly of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2010-01-21 T. Rohe , J. Acosta , A. Bean , S. Dambach , W. Erdmann , U. Langenegger , C. Martin , B. Meier , V. Radicci , J. Sibille , P. Trueb

The CMS experiment at the LHC includes a hybrid silicon pixel detector for the reconstruction of charged tracks and of the interaction vertices. The barrel region consists of n-in-n sensors with 100X150 um^2 cell size processed on diffusion…

In view of the high luminosity phase of the LHC (HL-LHC) to start operation around 2026, a major upgrade of the tracker system for the ATLAS experiment is in preparation. The expected neutron equivalent fluence of up to 2.4 * 1e16 1 MeV…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-02-14 Julien-Christopher Beyer , Alessandro La Rosa , Anna Macchiolo , Natascha Savic , Reem Taibah

Compound eyes found in insects provide intriguing sources of biological inspiration for miniaturized imaging systems. Inspired by such insect eye structures, we demonstrate an ultrathin arrayed camera enabled by a flat multilevel…

In this work a combination of an ionization chamber with one-dimensional spatial resolution and a MicroCAT structure will be presented. The combination between gas gain operations and integrating front-end electronics yields a dynamic range…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-18 Ralf-Hendrik Menk , Heinz Amenitsch , Fulvia Arfelli , Sigrid Bernstorff , Hans Juergen Besch , Francesco Voltolina

Diamond has been developed as a material for the detection of charged particles by ionization. Its radiation hardness makes it an attractive material for detectors operated in a harsh radiation environment e.g. close to a particle beam as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-09 M. Mathes , M. Cristinziani , H. Kagan , S. Smith , W. Trischuk , J. Velthuis , N. Wermes

This study evaluates the radiation tolerance of a 4H-SiC PIN detector under X-ray irradiation up to \SI{2}{MGy} (Si) at \SI{160}{keV}. The detector features a fully epitaxial vertical PIN structure with mesa terminations and field plates.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-20 Jiaqi Zhou , Sen Zhao , Xiyuan Zhang , Suyu Xiao , Chenxi Fu , Congcong Wang , Yanpeng Li , Weimin Song , Xin Shi

Objective: Quantify geometric and dosimetric accuracy of a novel prostate MR-to-MR deformable image registration (DIR) approach to support MR-guided adaptive radiation therapy dose accumulation. Approach: We evaluated DIR accuracy in 25…

A CMOS pixel sensor, named Supix-1, is developed for a pixelated silicon tracker for the Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC) project. The sensor, consisted of nine sectors varying in pixel sizes, diode sizes and geometries, is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-02-24 Long Li , Liang Zhang , Jianing Dong , Jian Liu , Meng Wang

Future high-resolution imaging X-ray observatories may require detectors with both fine spatial resolution and high quantum efficiency at relatively high X-ray energies (>5keV). A silicon imaging detector meeting these requirements will…

Synchrotron radiation with the characteristic of high brilliance, high level of polarization, high collimation, low emittance and wide tunability in energy has been used as a standard source in metrology(1, 2). For a decade, lots of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-17 LI Hua-Peng , Kun Tang , Yi-Dong Zhao , Lei Zheng , Shu-Hu Liu , Xiao-Liang Zhao , Ya-Shuai Zhao

This paper presents the design and performance analysis of a 1x6 linear microstrip patch antenna array tailored for automotive radar and 5G millimetre-wave (mm-wave) applications. The proposed antenna array comprises six rectangular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Muhammad Asfar Saeed , Augustine O. Nwajana

Hybrid pixel single-photon-counting detectors have been successfully employed and widely used in Synchrotron radiation X-ray detection. In this paper, the silicon pixel sensors for single X-ray photon detection, which operate in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-03 Zhen-Jie Li , Yun-Cong Jia , Ling-Fei Hu , Peng Liu , Hua-Xiang Yin

MiniCACTUS-v2 is a monolithic sensor prototype designed in LF 150 nm CMOS process for time tagging of individual Minimum Ionizing Particles with an accuracy better than 100 ps. The sensing element is a deep n-well/p-substrate diode without…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-02-24 Y. Degerli , R. Aleksan , R. Casanova , Y. Gan , S. Grinstein , F. Guilloux , A. Hanlon , T. Hemperek , J. P. Meyer , J. Pinol , P. Schwemling , E. Vilella

Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that contributes significantly to human radiation exposure and must be controlled to avoid concentrations harmful to health. The paper presents an impulse-proportional ionization chamber that…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-25 Ralf Nötzel , Kerstin Weinberg

Inter pixel capacitance (IPC) is a deterministic electronic coupling resulting in a portion of signal incident on one pixel of a hybridized detector array being measured in adjacent pixels. Data collected by light sensitive HgCdTe arrays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Kevan Donlon , Zoran Ninkov , Stefi Baum , Linpeng Cheng

We report on a large active area (15x15mm2), high channel density (470 pixels/mm2), self-triggering CMOS analog chip that we have developed as pixelized charge collecting electrode of a Micropattern Gas Detector. This device, which…

A hard x-ray, high-speed, high dynamic range scientific x-ray imager is described. The imager is based on the mixed-mode pixel array detector (MM-PAD) readout chip coupled to a 750 micron thick cadmium telluride (CdTe) sensor. The full…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-08-26 Hugh T. Philipp , Mark W. Tate , Katherine S. Shanks , Prafull Purohit , Sol M. Gruner

The ATLAS collaboration will replace its tracking detector with new all silicon pixel and strip systems. This will allow to cope with the higher radiation and occupancy levels expected after the 5-fold increase in the luminosity of the LHC…