A monolithic implementation of a switched-current "wheel" amplifier for multi-channel Silicon Drift Detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 46, Issue 3 PART 1, 1999, Pages 161-165

  Fiorini, C ^a   Pullia, A ^a   Gatti, E ^a   Longoni, A ^a   Buttler, W ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Ingenicur Büro Entwicklung Mikroelektronischer Schaltungen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; VLSI CIRCUITS;

SILICON DRIFT DETECTORS; VLSI SHAPER AMPLIFIER;

SILICON SENSORS;

EID: 0033356661     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.775507     Document Type: Article

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