Experimental comparison of discrete and CMOS charge sensitive preamplifiers for CZT radiation detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4 II, 2003, Pages 936-941

  Montémont, Guillaume ^a   Rostaing, Jean Pierre ^a   Verger, Loïck ^a  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

Author keywords

Charge sensitive preamplifier; Count rate, CZT; Equivalent noise charge; Gamma ray detectors; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GAMMA RAYS;

CHARGE SENSITIVE PREAMPLIFIERS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 0041424891     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.815110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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