DocumentCode :
766394
Title :
Readout of scintillating plastic fibers with an APD array and prototype ASIC
Author :
Macri, John R. ; Wintenberg, Alan L. ; Widholm, Mark ; Jagadish, Usha ; Ledoux, James ; McConnell, Mark L. ; Frank, S. Shane ; Cutlip, Hansford
Author_Institution :
Space Science Center, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Volume :
50
Issue :
4
fYear :
2003
Firstpage :
928
Lastpage :
935
Abstract :
We report on the development of custom front-end electronics for use with avalanche photodiode (APD) arrays as part of a NASA technology study for the readout of scintillating plastic fibers. APD arrays featuring 64 1 mm square pixels are used. We demonstrate that a pixel of these APD arrays coupled to relatively thin (0.25 mm) and short (15 cm) scintillating plastic fibers can be used to detect and measure the tracks of even minimum ionizing particles. An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation of the electronics is required to produce a detector sufficiently compact for practical use in a space flight experiment featuring many thousands of channels. This paper briefly describes the detector concept and performance and presents the design and performance of a four-channel prototype ASIC fabricated using the 0.35 μ Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) process.
Keywords :
MOS integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; avalanche photodiodes; nuclear electronics; position sensitive particle detectors; readout electronics; solid scintillation detectors; 0.25 mm; 15 cm; 641 mm; APD array; avalanche photodiode; front-end electronics; metal-oxide-semiconductor; minimum ionizing particles; prototype ASIC; readout; scintillating plastic fibers; space flight experiment; Application specific integrated circuits; Avalanche photodiodes; Coupling circuits; Detectors; Integrated circuit measurements; NASA; Particle measurements; Plastics; Prototypes; Space technology;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9499
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.2003.815108
Filename :
1221899
Link To Document :
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