• DocumentCode
    3628733
  • Title

    Current-mode preamplifier for response measurement of semiconductor scintillator

  • Author

    Xiao Yun;Milutin Stanacevic;Vladis Kuzminsky;Mikhail Gouzman

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    398
  • Lastpage
    401
  • Abstract
    A design of front-end preamplifier for measurement of optical response of photo-detector registering light produced by semiconductor scintillator is presented. The designed preamplifier is based on a current mode, regulated cascode (RGC) structure. A comparison with a previously reported common gate (CG) structure is provided. The experimental prototype was designed in 0.5μm CMOS process. With a 5 V power supply, total power consumption of a chip is 7.5mW. With 50 pF input capacitance and 100 nA leakage current of interfaced photo-detector, the equivalent noise charge (ENC) is 8000.
  • Keywords
    "Noise","Preamplifiers","Capacitance","Logic gates","Detectors","Parasitic capacitance","Mirrors"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2008. MWSCAS 2008. 51st Midwest Symposium on
  • ISSN
    1548-3746
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2166-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1558-3899
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWSCAS.2008.4616820
  • Filename
    4616820