CMOS charged particle spectrometers

Author

Soli, G.A. ; Garrett, H.B. ; Fossum, E.R.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

43

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

6/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1516

Lastpage

1520

Abstract

Integrated circuits, manufactured in CMOS technology, have been developed as diffusion-based charged particle spectrometers for space applications. Current designs are single-chip spectrometers capable of uniquely identifying and counting electrons and heavy ions. A four-chip spectrometer designed to count protons and heavy ions was flown on the Clementine spacecraft. The spectrometer proton data is compared to GOES-6 proton data for the 21 February 1994 solar proton event

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; cosmic ray apparatus; cosmic ray energy spectra; cosmic ray nuclei; cosmic ray protons; cosmic rays; electron detection; electron spectrometers; particle spectrometers; proton detection; solar cosmic ray particles; CMOS; Clementine spacecraft; GOES-6; charged particle spectrometers; electron detection; four-chip spectrometer; heavy ion detection; single-chip spectrometers; solar proton event; Application specific integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Electrons; Integrated circuit manufacture; Integrated circuit technology; Protons; Space charge; Space technology; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.507095

Filename

507095