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Young scientist from PH/ESE group wins IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award

Rafael Ballabriga Sune, a young scientist working within the ESE group, has been presented with the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society 2013 Radiation Instrumentation Early Career Award "for the implementation of a new approach to spectroscopic…

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Designing pixel readout chips at CERN: From dream to reality.

Back in the 1980s, Erik Heijne at CERN envisioned that the then fledgling integrated circuit technologies could be employed to create a novel radiation detector. His vision was that all the electronics needed for processing signals from a radiation…

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Medipix presented at TEDx@CERN

On May 3rd CERN hosted the TEDx@CERN event. TED is a nonprofit organisation devoted to the concept of 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. The TEDx@CERN event included a number of speakers covering a wide range of topics from cosmology (by Nobel Prize-winner,…

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The “white paper” projects in ESE

In the course of 2007, at the time the ESE group was formed1, several “white paper projects” -an initiative of the Council towards projects for future research- were defined and approved for a start in 2008. ESE was involved in four of them and this…

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