• Title of article

    A gain control and stabilization technique for Silicon Photomultipliers in low-light-level applications around room temperature

  • Author/Authors

    Li، نويسنده , , Zhengwei and Xu، نويسنده , , Yupeng and Liu، نويسنده , , Congzhan and Li، نويسنده , , Yanguo and Li، نويسنده , , Maoshun and Chen، نويسنده , , Yong and Wang، نويسنده , , Yusa and Lu، نويسنده , , Bo and Cui، نويسنده , , Weiwei and Huo، نويسنده , , Jia and Chen، نويسنده , , Tianxiang and Han، نويسنده , , Dawei and Hu، نويسنده , , Wei and Li، نويسنده , , Chengkui and Li، نويسنده , , Wei and Liu، نويسنده , , Xiaoyan and Wang، نويسنده , , Juan ، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    222
  • To page
    225
  • Abstract
    An experimental setup in dark condition was established to investigate the temperature and bias voltage dependence of the Multi-Pixel Photon Counter (MPPC), one type of the SiPM developed by Hamamatsu. The dark current of an MPPC near room temperature at a given gain can be approximated by an exponential function of temperature which is similar to the behavior of a negative temperature coefficient (NTC) thermistor. According to these facts, a gain control and stabilization circuit for MPPC is developed by using a programmable current sink with temperature compensation. Detailed design and performance analysis results of the circuit in the temperature range from 5.1 °C to 33.3 °C will be discussed in this paper.
  • Keywords
    SiPM , MPPC , Dark current , Gain control
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    2020107