Monolithic systems design for the Silicon Electromagnetic Calorimetry Collaboration

Author

Todd, R.A. ; Kennedy, E.J. ; Britton, C.L., Jr. ; Berridge, S.C. ; Bugg, W.M. ; Du, Y.C. ; Alley, G.T. ; Brashear, H.R. ; Bauer, M.L. ; Emery, M.S. ; Wintenberg, A.L.

Author_Institution

Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., TN, USA

Volume

41

Issue

4

fYear

1994

fDate

8/1/1994 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1212

Lastpage

1216

Abstract

A series of monolithic bipolar charge-sensitive preamplifiers and a companion monolithic 50-ns CMOS shaping amplifier have been designed, fabricated, and characterized for use with silicon calorimeters. The preamplifier topologies evaluated were current-mode, folded cascode, and differential. These three topologies were fabricated in the Harris Semiconductor VHF process and were characterized for noise, transient response, power dissipation and radiation hardness. Versions of each preamplifier have been designed to operate over a range of detector pad capacitance from 20-500 pF. The CMOS shaping amplifier specifications and test results are presented with emphasis on the system integration requirements for beam tests

Keywords

calorimeters; detector circuits; nuclear electronics; preamplifiers; semiconductor counters; semiconductor device noise; 20 to 500 pF; 50 ns; Harris Semiconductor VHF process; Si; Si calorimeters; current-mode; detector pad capacitance; differential; folded cascade; monolithic CMOS shaping amplifier; monolithic bipolar charge-sensitive preamplifier; noise; power dissipation; radiation hardness; transient response; Capacitance; Detectors; Noise shaping; Power dissipation; Preamplifiers; Semiconductor device noise; Silicon; System testing; Topology; Transient response;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.322886

Filename

322886