Design and Qualification of a High-Speed Low-Power Comparator in 40 nm CMOS Technology

This paper presents the design methodology, test setup and experimental qualification results of a high-speed low-power threshold comparator in 40 nm CMOS technology intended for the registry of particles landing on a PIN-detector surface in particle detector readout electronics. The operation of the designed comparator is experimentally...

Low-Offset Band-Pass Signal Shaper with High Time Resolution in 40 nm CMOS Technology

State-of-the-art readout integrated circuits (ROICs) operating in particle-counting mode are gravitating toward high time resolution, low-noise, and low-power analog readout frontends to detect and register the arrival time of charge signals with a high accuracy. To achieve a time resolution of a few nanoseconds, an intermediate stage, known as...

Experimental Qualification of a Low-Noise Charge-Sensitive ROIC with Very High Time Resolution

Small charge detection is used for a wide range of applications: advanced industrial process control, experimental physics and space instruments, and material testing and medical imaging. These applications give rise to the development of a wide variety of charge-sensitive readout integrated circuits (ROICs). The trend in the state-of-the-art...

High Time Resolution, Low-Noise, Power-Efficient, Charge-Sensitive Amplifier in 40 nm Technology

Particle detection circuits are used for a wide range of applications from experimental physics to material testing and medical imaging. In the state-of-The-Art systems, the trend is to design low-noise and low-power readout front-end electronics with a low detection error rate and small silicon area occupation. This paper presents the design...

Characterization Challenges of a Low Noise Charge Detection ROIC

This article presents the experimentally characterized performance of a low noise and wideband sensor readout integrated circuit (ROIC). The ROIC is designed to detect small amounts of charge generated by a silicon p-i-n detector as a result of particle detection, with very high time resolution and limited power consumption. The architecture...