Timing performances of large area Silicon PhotoMultipliers fabricated at STMicroelectronics

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2273-2279

  Mazzillo, Massimo ^a   Condorelli, Giovanni ^a   Sanfilippo, Delfo ^a   Valvo, Giuseppina ^a   Carbone, Beatrice ^a   Piana, Angelo ^a   Fallica, Giorgio ^a   Ronzhin, Anatoly ^b   Demarteau, Marcel ^b   Los, Sergey ^b   Ramberg, Erik ^b  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark current; Geiger mode avalanche diode; Silicon PhotoMultiplier; single photoelectron response; timing resolution

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; FAST TIMING; FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORIES; FERMILAB; FILL FACTOR; GEIGER MODES; MICRO CELL; OVER-VOLTAGES; SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER; SINGLE PHOTOELECTRONS; STMICROELECTRONICS; TIMING MEASUREMENT; TIMING PERFORMANCE; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

AVALANCHE DIODES; DARK CURRENTS; ELECTRONS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77955847821     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2049122     Document Type: Article

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