Title :
A Hybridised, Charged-Particle Multidetector
Author :
Hatfield, J V ; Burke, S A ; Comer, J ; Goldfinch, J ; York, T A ; Hicks, P J
Author_Institution :
Dept. Electrical Eng. and Electronics, UMIST, UK.
Abstract :
A hybrid circuit is reported which is a novel position sensitive charged-particle detector. Multi-channel detectors have been developed which consist of an array of charge sensing electrodes and a corresponding array of amplifiers and counters integrated on a single chip. The active electrode area can be arbitrarily extended by abutting individual detector chips side-by-side, under the control of a customising LCA. When mounted with a Micro-Channel Plate (MCP) multiplier the device counts individual particles or photons.
Keywords :
Counting circuits; Electrodes; Electrons; Instruments; Position sensitive particle detectors; Prototypes; Pulse amplifiers; Sensor arrays; Spatial resolution; Spectroscopy;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1991. ESSCIRC '91. Proceedings - Seventeenth European
Conference_Location :
Milan, Italy
