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CHIPS: A new EP-ESE service for the HEP community
ASIC technology and designs are becoming increasingly complex but bring potentially huge benefits to HEP experiments (see also previous EP article "A bright future for microelectronics"). Figure 1 summarises the evolution of CMOS technologies in the…
Read moreSilicon photonics for high-energy physics experiments
Optical links have become ubiquitous in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments to transport data generated from the particle detectors and other control points along the accelerator to the processing electronics. So far, links based on both single-…
Read moreColour X-rays for Medicine: The 2019 specXray workshop
The fifth workshop on Medical Applications of Spectroscopic X-ray Detectors (specXray) took place at CERN from 13 to 17th of May. Since its establishment in 2011, the workshop has brought together specialists from different but related fields…
Read moreElectronics experts come together at Antwerp
The “Topical Workshop on Electronics for Particle Physics” is the successor of the LEB and LECC Workshop series, which were initiated in 1994 by the LHC Electronics Board (LEB), an advisory board to the CERN LHC Experiments Committee. Since 2007,…
Read moreDeveloping new electronics for the CMS tracking system
The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) entails a substantial upgrade of the CMS tracking system, to cope with much more demanding requirements and to implement additional functionalities. One of the main challenges for the experiments is…
Read moreA bright future for microelectronics at CERN
During the 2018 FCC week in Amsterdam, Michael Campbell (EP-ESE) gave a presentation on the “Present and future of microelectronics”. Following an informative review of ASICs used in the LHC run one systems, he tried to distinguish recent trends in…
Read moreDesigning Utopia – An Ultralow Picoammeter
There are various applications where the output of a sensor is a low current. In some cases like in ionizing radiation measurements, device characterization, leakage current measurements and biosensing instrumentation, the current that has to be…
Read moreDeveloping radiation hardness electronics for future detectors
Particle colliders generate an extremely large amount of high-energy interactions in order to produce and detect very rare events that can be used to improve our understanding of the underlying physical laws. In doing so, a significant background is…
Read moreThe Versatile Link Demonstrator Board (VLDB): an evaluation kit for the GBT ecosystem
One of PH/ESE’s flagship projects is the Radiation Hard Optical Link project for LHC, a common development for all LHC experiments and other interested collaborations. The objective of the project is to supply experiments with a radiation hard,…
Read moreTDCpix: a high rate pixel detector ASIC with built-in ultra-precise stopwatches
The TDCpix, which stands for Time-to-Digital Converter Pixel ASIC, measures the position and arrival time of incident beam particles in the Gigatracker detector of the NA62 experiment. Its design architecture stems from experience with silicon pixel…
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