VELA: The CMOS circuit based on fast current read-out for X-ray spectroscopy with DePMOS

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1359-1366

  Bombelli, Luca ^a,b,c   Fiorini, Carlo ^a,b,c   Porro, Matteo ^a,d,e   Herrmann, Sven ^d,e   Wölfel, Stefan ^d,e  

^a IEEE

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^e MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current readout; DePMOS; Fast weighting functions; Time variant filter

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DRAIN CURRENT; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CURRENT READOUT; FAST WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; TIME-VARIANT FILTER;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 34548076537     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.901224     Document Type: Conference Paper

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