Performance of a fast binary readout CMOS active pixel sensor chip designed for charged particle detection

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3949-3955

  Deǧerli, Yavuz ^a   Besançon, Marc ^a   Besson, Auguste ^b   Claus, Gilles ^b   Deptuch, Grzegorz ^c,d   Dulinski, Wojciech ^b   Fourches, Nicolas ^a   Goffe, Mathieu ^b   Himmi, Abdelkader ^b   Li, Yan ^a   Lutz, Pierre ^a   Orsini, Fabienne ^a   Szelezniak, Michal ^b  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

^b CENTRE DE CALCUL DE L INSTITUT NATIONAL DE PHYSIQUE NUCLEAIRE ET DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor; Charged particle detector; CMOS sensor; Discriminator; MAPS; Vertex detector

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; DATA ACQUISITION; DISCRIMINATORS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SENSORS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS; CHARGED PARTICLE DETECTORS; CMOS SENSORS; SIGNAL BUFFERING; VERTEX DETECTORS;

READOUT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846316715     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.886151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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