Low-power amplifier-discriminators for high time resolution detection

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 375-381

  Despeisse, Matthieu ^a   Jarron, Pierre ^a   Anghinolfi, Francis ^a   Tiuraniemi, Sakari ^a   Osmic, Fadmar ^a   Riedler, Petra ^a   Kluge, Alexander ^a   Ceccucci, Augusto ^a  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CMOS circuits; Detector instrumentation; Fluorescence spectroscopy; High energy physics instrumentation; Photodetectors

Indexed keywords

CMOS CIRCUITS; CMOS TECHNOLOGIES; FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; HIGH-TIME RESOLUTIONS; MINIMUM IONIZING PARTICLES; OUTPUT PULSE; PIXEL DETECTORS; PIXEL READOUTS; POWER CONSUMPTION; SOLID-STATE DETECTORS; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; VACUUM TUBES;

CAPACITANCE; DETECTOR CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; DISCRIMINATORS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PIXELS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; READOUT SYSTEMS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING CIRCUITS; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 64749089400     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2013350     Document Type: Article

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