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Designing 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…
Read more2014: A busy year for the ESE group
The PH Electronic Systems for Experiments (ESE) group is involved in the development, construction and qualification of electronics for detector readout systems and for related infrastructure for CERN experiments; it also provides unique…
Read more25 years of Microelectronics at CERN: from LAA to the LHC
Last November, the success of the LAA R&D project that led to the development of microelectronics at CERN was celebrated. LAA was a well-defined R&D activity for the study of new detection techniques for the next generation of hadron-…
Read moreYoung 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…
Read moreDesigning 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…
Read moreThe “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…
Read moreThe PH electronics support group
The PH-ESE group (Electronics Systems for Experiments) was established in 2007 from the merging of 5 separate PH electronics groups. The group consisting of ~50 staff members supports all CERN experiments with electronics R&D, services…
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