CMOS

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

About the Author

Chapter 1    Front-end Specifications and Architecture Overview

1.1    Basic features and electrical modeling of radiation sensors

1.1.1    Signal formation in detectors

1.1.2    Signal polarity

1.1.3    Space resolution and detector segmentation

1.1.4    Amplitude and signal shape fluctuations

1.1.5    Sensor capacitance

1.1.6    Leakage current

1.1.7    Sensor equivalent circuit

1.1.8    Modeling of composite systems

1.2    Examples of radiation sensors

1.3    Key parameters in front-end electronics

1.3.1    A first front-end amplifier

1.3.2    Peaking time

1.3.3    Gain and signal polarity

1.3.4    Noise

1.3.5    Time resolution

1.3.6    Pile-up

1.3.7    Detection efficiency ...