Optimization of front-end design in imaging and spectrometry applications with room temperature semiconductor detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1978-1985

  Fabris, Lorenzo ^a   Manfredi, Pierfrancesco ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capacitive matching; Monolithic processes; Noise optimization

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROMETRY;

FRONT-END DESIGN;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0036703071     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.801703     Document Type: Article

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