A front-end ASIC for use with large-pixel array detectors

Author

Jagadish, Usha ; Britton, Charles L. ; Bryan, William L. ; Garber, F. Wayne ; Walter, John

Author_Institution

Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., TN, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

10-16 Nov. 2002

Firstpage

576

Abstract

An Integrated Circuit (IC) readout chip with four channels arranged so as to receive input charge from the corners of the chip was designed for use with 5- to 7-mm pixel detectors. This Application Specific IC (ASIC) can be used for cold neutron imaging, for study of structural order in materials using cold neutron scattering or for particle physics experiments. The ASIC is fabricated in a 0.5-μm n-well AMI process. The design of the ASIC and the test measurements made will be reported. Noise measurements will also he reported.

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; neutron detection; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; semiconductor counters; 0.5 micron; 5 to 7 mm; AMI process; cold neutron imaging; cold neutron scattering; frontend ASIC; input charge; integrated circuit readout chip; large-pixel array detectors; noise measurements; Application specific integrated circuits; Crosstalk; Detectors; Laboratories; Neutrons; Preamplifiers; Pulse circuits; Sensor arrays; Telephony; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2002 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7636-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2002.1239379

Filename

1239379