The digital silicon photomultiplier - Principle of operation and intrinsic detector performance

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1959-1965

  Frach, Thomas ^a   Prescher, Gordian ^a   Degenhardt, Carsten ^a   De Gruyter, Rik ^a   Schmitz, Anja ^a   Ballizany, Rob ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE QUENCHING; CMOS LOGIC; DETECTOR CELL; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION; DIGITAL SIGNALS; ELECTRONIC NOISE; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; POST PROCESSING; SENSORLESS; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; STANDARD CMOS PROCESS; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA PROCESSING; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

SENSORS;

EID: 77951201014     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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