CMOS : front-end electronics for radiation sensors /: front-end electronics for radiation sensors. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Angelo Rivetti.
• Authors: Rivetti, Angelo
• Contents: Preface Acknowledgments List of Tables About the Author Front-End Specifications and Architecture Overview Basic Features and Electrical Modeling of Radiation Sensors Signal Formation in Detectors Signal Polarity Space Resolution and Detector Segmentation Amplitude and Signal Shape Fluctuations Sensor Capacitance Leakage Current Sensor Equivalent Circuit Modeling of Composite Systems Examples of Radiation Sensors Key Parameters in Front-End Electronics A First Front-End Amplifier Peaking Time Gain and Signal Polarity Noise Time Resolution Pile-Up Detection Efficiency and Derandomization Front-End Architectures Binary Front-End Counting and Time-Over-Threshold Architectures Time Pick-Off Systems Sample and Hold and Peak Detectors Analog Memories Real Time Waveform Digitizers Data Readout and Transmission References MOS Transistor Properties Silicon Properties Silicon Band Structure Doping Charge Transport in Silicon Charge Transport by Drift Mobility in Doped Silicon Charge Transport by Diffusion Einstein Relationship Graded Doping pn Junctions Built-In Voltage Depletion Region Breakdown Voltage Junction Capacitance Contact Potentials A First Look at MOS Transistors The NMOS Transistors The PMOS Transistors Transistor Representations CMOS Technologies CMOS Radiation Sensors Electrical Characteristics of MOS Transistors The Threshold Voltage Regions of Operation of the MOS Transistor MOS Characteristics in the Linear Region MOS Characteristics in Saturation The Body Effect MOS Capacitance The PMOS Transistor MOS Small Signal Parameters Gate Transconductance Bulk Transconductance Output Conductance MOS Small Signal Model Weak and Moderate Inversion The Deep Submicron MOS Transistor Scaling Methods Mobility Reduction Velocity Saturation Drain-Induced Barrier Lowering Hot Carrier Effects Gate Leakage Current References Input Stages Transimpedance Amplifiers The Transimpedance Amplifier as a Feedback Circuit Common Source Amplifiers Common Source Amplifier with Resistive Load Current Mirrors Common Source Amplifiers with Active Load Source Degenerated Common Source Amplifiers Feedback in Source Degenerated Amplifiers Output Impedance of the Source Degenerated Amplifier Cascode Amplifiers Cascode Current Mirrors Wide-Swing Current Mirrors Telescopic Cascode Amplifiers Folded Cascode Unbuffered Transresistance Amplifiers Source Followers Buffered Cascode Amplifiers Amplifiers with Rail-to-Rail Output Stage Gain Boosting Current Mode Input Stages References Input Stages in the Frequency Domain The Common Source Amplifier in the Frequency Domain Voltage Driven Common Source Amplifier Current Driven Common Source Amplifier Analysis of the Common Source Amplifier with the Miller Theorem Frequency Performance of Cascode Amplifiers Frequency Stability of Amplifiers Feedback and Frequency Compensation of CMOS OTA Phase Margin Frequency Compensation Effect of the Right-Half Plane Zero Advanced Compensation Techniques Frequency Stability and Compensation of Front-End Amplifiers Transimpedance Amplifier with Ideal Output Buffer Input Impedance Transimpedance Amplifier with Real Output Buffer Input Stages with Gain Boosting The Charge Sensitive Amplifier Frequency Performance of Current Mode Input Stages References Noise Fundamental Concepts Thermal and Shot Noise Spectral Density Thermal Noise Shot Noise Noise in MOS Transistors Channel Thermal Noise in MOS Transistors Flicker Noise Noise Calculations in Circuits Noise in an RC Low-Pass Filter Noise in a Single-Stage Front-End Noise Filtering and Optimization of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio The Matched Filter Optimum Filter for Energy Measurements Optimum Filter for Timing Measurements References Time Invariant Shapers Ideal Charge Sensitive Amplifiers The CR-RC Shaper CR-RCn Shapers Shapers with Complex Conjugate Poles Noise Calculations in Time Invariant Shapers Noise in CR-RC Shapers Noise Calculations in CR-RCn Shapers Noise Slope Effect of 1/ fa Noise Alternative Formalism for Noise Calculations Noise Simulations Pole-Zero Cancellation and Baseline Control Pole-Zero Cancellation Baseline Holders and Baseline Restorers Baseline Restorers Bipolar Shapers Front-End with Transimpedance Input Stage Gain and Bandwidth Limitations in Charge Sensitive Amplifiers Effects of Finite Gain in the CSA Effect of CSA Bandwidth Limitation Effect of Finite Charge Collection Time References Time Variant Shapers Ballistic Deficit and the Gated Integrator Noise Analysis in the Time Domain Time-Domain Noise Analysis of the CR-RC Filter Time-Domain Noise Analysis of the Gated Integrator Correlated Double Sampling Time-Variant Filters in CMOS Technology References Transistor-Level Front-End Design Transistor-Level Design of Charge Sensitive Amplifiers Optimization of the Input Transistor Load Design Choice of Input Transistor Type Passive Feedback Networks Integrated Capacitors Passive Resistors Active Feedback Networks Feedback Transistors in Linear Region Transconductance Feedback Feedback with DC Current Compensation Constant Current Feedback Power Supply Rejection Implementation of Shaping Amplifiers Single Stage Shapers Multi-Stage Shapers Active Shaping Networks OTA-C Shapers Compact Shaping Cells Baseline Holder Design Fully Differential Front-End Implementation of Current Mode Front-Ends References Discriminators Basic Discriminator Properties Discriminator Gain and Speed Requirements Discriminator Threshold Setting General Purpose Voltage Discriminators Two-Stage Discriminators Discriminator with Cross-Coupled Loads </P
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 539.77; Radiation -- Measurement -- Instruments; Metal oxide semiconductors, Complementary
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466563117
• Related ISBNs: 9781466563100
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