Features of silicon photo multipliers: Precision measurements of noise, cross-talk, afterpulsing, detection efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1033-1041

  Finocchiaro, Paolo ^a   Pappalardo, Alfio ^a   Cosentino, Luigi ^a   Belluso, Massimiliano ^b   Billotta, Sergio ^b   Bonanno, Giovanni ^b   Di Mauro, Salvatore ^b  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Afterpulsing; Dark noise; Gain; Photon detectionefficiency; Quenching resistor; Silicon photomultiplier; Single photon avalanche photodiode; Single photon counting

Indexed keywords

AFTERPULSING; DARK NOISE; GAIN; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; CROSSTALK; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; MICROELECTRONICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; QUENCHING; RESISTORS; SENSORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 67649229883     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2014308     Document Type: Article

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