A rad-hard, low-noise, high-speed, BiFET charge preamplifier for warm liquid calorimetry in the SSC

Author

Ling, Kuok-Young ; Van Peteghem, Peter M. ; Lee, Sang-Yong ; Liu, Hain-Ching ; Sanchez, Hector

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX, USA

Volume

26

Issue

1

fYear

1991

fDate

1/1/1991 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

66

Lastpage

69

Abstract

A fully integrated BiFET charge preamplifier is described which meets the specifications imposed by the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC): a rise time under 100 ns, total noise less than 1000 electrons r.m.s., and power consumption below 80 mW. It has been designed for a detector capacitance of 10 pF and tested up to a total gamma dose of 1.44 Mrd and neutron fluence of 2×10¹³ n/cm². An industrial junction-isolated BiFET process with an 80-MHz f_T for the P-JFETs, 260 MHz for the n-p-n´s, and 10 MHz for the p-n-p´s was used to implement the preamplifier circuit

Keywords

BIMOS integrated circuits; nuclear electronics; preamplifiers; proton accelerators; radiation hardening; storage rings; synchrotrons; 1.44×10⁶ Rd; 10 MHz; 10 pF; 100 ns; 260 MHz; 80 MHz; 80 mW; BiFET charge preamplifier; P-JFETs; SSC; Superconducting Supercollider; calorimetry; industrial junction-isolated BiFET process; n-p-n; nuclear electronics; p-n-p; storage rings; Capacitance; Electrons; Energy consumption; Gamma ray detection; Gamma ray detectors; Neutrons; Preamplifiers; Radiation hardening; Superconducting device noise; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.65713

Filename

65713