Design and high-speed tests of a single-flux-quantum time-to-digital converter for time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Author

Sano, Ko ; Takahashi, Asami ; Yamanashi, Y. ; Yoshikawa, N. ; Zen, N. ; Suzuki, Kenji ; Ohkubo, Masataka

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Yokohama Nat. Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

7-11 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We are developing a single-flux-quantum (SFQ) time-to-digital converter (TDC) for time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOF MS) system. In this study, we designed and tested a 24-bit SFQ TDC with a 3 × 24-bit FIFO buffer using the AIST Nb standard process (STP2), whose time resolution and dynamic range are 100 ps and 1.6 ms, respectively. The TDC design was improved to reduce the total junction numbers and the bias current in order to install it in a 4.2 K cryo-cooler. We confirmed the operation of the TDC and evaluated the jitter by measuring a histogram of TDC read out.

Keywords

mass spectroscopy; superconducting logic circuits; time-digital conversion; TDC design; TDC read out; TOF MS; bias current; temperature 4.2 K; total junction numbers; word length 24 bit; Histograms; Jitter; Mass spectroscopy; Pulse measurements; Radiation detectors; Temperature measurement; Time measurement; FIFO; Josephson integrated circuits; SFQ circuits; SSID; TDC; mass spectrometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Superconductive Electronics Conference (ISEC), 2013 IEEE 14th International

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6369-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEC.2013.6604259

Filename

6604259