The Medipix3 prototype, a pixel readout chip working in single photon counting mode with improved spectrometric performance

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1824-1829

  Ballabriga, R ^b   Campbell, M ^b   Heijne, E H M ^a,b   Llopart, X ^b   Tlustos, L ^b  

^a IEEE

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Charge sharing; CMOS; Medipix; Photon counting; Pixel; X rays

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; LOGIC CIRCUITS; PHASE NOISE; PHOTONS; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SPECTROMETRY; SUMMING CIRCUITS; X RAYS;

CHARGE SHARING; FLUORESCENT PHOTONS; MEDIPIX; PHOTON COUNTING;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 35348948593     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.906163     Document Type: Article

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