Pole-zero cancellation circuit with pulse pile-up tracking system for low noise charge-sensitive amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 583-590

  Grybos, Pawel ^a,b   Szczygiel, Robert ^b  

^a IEEE

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Charge sensitive amplifier; Pole zero cancellation circuit; Pulse pile up

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CHARGE; MOSFET DEVICES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

CHARGE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIER; POLE-ZERO CANCELLATION CIRCUIT;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 39049144314     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.914018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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