DRAGO chip: A low-noise CMOS preamplifier shaper for silicon detectors with integrated front-end JFET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 III, 2005, Pages 1647-1653

  Fiorini, C ^a,b,c   Porro, M ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Front end electronics; Readout ASIC; Silicon drift detector

Indexed keywords

FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; READOUT ASIC; SILICON DRIFT DETECTOR;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); GAMMA RAYS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS; SIGNAL DETECTION; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 29144435239     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.856623     Document Type: Review

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