Pixel-readout chips
Design of the pixel-readout chips for hybrid pixel detectors either CCPDs or the bump-bonded-ones is an important task in our group. An example of a readout chip developed in our group is CIC1 - a multi purpose pixel-chip for the readout of the high resistive sensors. The chip contains a novel pixel electronics and has the capability of simultaneous photon counting and measuring of signal energy.
CIC1 features a very high and linear analog dynamic range of 118dB, a high photon counting rate about 17MHz) and a pixel size of 120x120 micrometers. The chip can be applied both for the readout of silicon sensors (fluorescence light sensor for biology applications, x-ray sensor for diffraction x-ray imaging) and for the readout of Cd(Zn)Te sensors (x-ray detection and synchrotron light experiments). The development has been conducted within the ViroQuant project. The goal was the design of a pixel array for a multi-focal microscope for cell-studies.
Publication list
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Book: Medical Imaging
Contribution by Ivan Peric
Wiley, ISBN 978-0-470-39164-8, April 2009 -
Counting and Integrating Readout for Direct Conversion X-ray Imaging
E. Kraft, et al.
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 54, Issue: 2, Part: 1 (2007)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2005.1596908 -
The FEI3 readout chip for the ATLAS pixel detector
I. Peric, L. Blanquart, G. Comes, P. Denes, K. Einsweiler, P. Fischer, E. Mandelli, G. Meddeler
Nucl. Instr. Meth. A565 178-187 (2006) (Reviewed proceedings of the Pixel 2005 conference) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2006.05.032 -
Design and Realisation of Integrated Circuits for the Readout of Pixel
Sensors in High-Energy Physics and Biomedical Imaging.
I. Peric
PhD Thesis (BONN-IR-2004-13), Bonn University, Germany
