A CMOS current preamplifier and shaper with 50 Ω line driver for liquid argon preshower

Author

Dzahini, D. ; Guerre-Chaley, B. ; Pouxe, J. ; Rossetto, O.

Author_Institution

Inst. des Sci. Nucl., CNRS, Grenoble, France

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

30 Oct-5 Nov 1994

Firstpage

749

Abstract

In the field of liquid argon calorimetry for the LHC detector program, a CMOS “current conveyor” preamplifier was developed for a cold preshower. It is an improved version of the ICON circuit which had been formerly designed by the RD2 collaboration. This paper also presents a CMOS linear output buffer, featuring a dynamic range better than ±2V on a 50 Ω load, for a 10 mW power dissipation at 77 K. Furthermore a biquadratic 10 MHz bandpass filter was developed, based on a high speed rail to rail CMOS operational amplifier. It is meant to be the filter placed at the output of the ICON preamplifier. All this front-end electronics is designed in a 1.2 μm CMOS technology

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; band-pass filters; calorimeters; detector circuits; liquid ionisation chambers; nuclear electronics; operational amplifiers; preamplifiers; shower counters; 10 MHz; 50 ohm; Ar; CMOS current conveyor preamplifier; CMOS current preamplifier; CMOS current shaper; CMOS linear output buffer; ICON circuit; LHC detector program; RD2 collaboration; biquadratic bandpass filter; cold preshower; front-end electronics; line driver; liquid argon calorimetry; liquid argon preshower; power dissipation; Argon; Band pass filters; CMOS technology; Calorimetry; Collaboration; Detectors; Driver circuits; Dynamic range; Large Hadron Collider; Preamplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, 1994., 1994 IEEE Conference Record

Conference_Location

Norfolk, VA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2544-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.1994.474502

Filename

474502