A 12-channel CMOS preamplifier-shaper-discriminator ASIC for APD and gas counters

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2204-2208

  Yeom, J Y ^a   Defendi, I ^b   Takahashi, H ^a   Zeitelhack, K ^b   Nakazawa, M ^a   Murayama, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Avalanche photodiode (APD); Complementary metal oxide semi conductor (CMOS); Gas detector

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; GAS DETECTORS;

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (ASIC); CASCODE TOPOLOGY; EQUIVALENT NOISE CHARGE (ENC); GAS COUNTER;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33748337323     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.878573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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