A CMOS time-of-flight system-on-a-chip for spacecraft instruments

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 II, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1156-1163

  Paschalidis, N ^a   Stamatopoulos, N ^a,b   Karadamoglou, K ^a,b   Kottaras, G ^a,b   Paschalidis, V ^a,b   Sarris, E ^a,b   McNutt, R ^a   Mitchell, D ^a   McEntire, R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DISCRIMINATORS; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; TIMING JITTER;

CONSTANT FRACTION DISCRIMINATORS; TIME OF FLIGHT SYSTEM; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0036624386     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1039630     Document Type: Article

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