A new approach was developed for the design of front-end circuits for semiconductor radiation detectors. The readout scheme is a charge sensitive amplifier, split between a very front-end stage (input transistor, feedback resistor and capacitor) located close to the detector and a remote second stage located far from the detector. The element of novelty, with respect to similar configurations, is the fact that the connecting links between the very front-end and the second stage are made with transmission lines. As a result, wide bandwidth and closed-loop stability are maintained even if the distance between the very front-end and the second stage is much larger than usual, up to tens of meters. The circuit was named GeFRO for Germanium front-end, and was tested with a BEGe detector from Canberra. Timing resolutions of 20 ns (open loop) and 185 ns (closed loop with 60° phase margin) were obtained with 10 m long cables between the very front-end and the second stage. The noise of the circuit after a 10 μs Gaussian shaping was close to 160 e- RMS with an input capacitance of 26 pF. © 1963-2012 IEEE.
Cassina, L., Cattadori, C., Giachero, A., Gotti, C., Maino, M., Pessina, G. (2014). GeFRO: A new charge sensitive amplifier design for wide bandwidth and closed-loop stability over long distances. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, 61(3), 1259-1268 [10.1109/TNS.2014.2318176].
GeFRO: A new charge sensitive amplifier design for wide bandwidth and closed-loop stability over long distances
CASSINA, LORENZO;GIACHERO, ANDREA;GOTTI, CLAUDIO;MAINO, MATTEO;PESSINA, GIANLUIGI EZIO
2014
Abstract
A new approach was developed for the design of front-end circuits for semiconductor radiation detectors. The readout scheme is a charge sensitive amplifier, split between a very front-end stage (input transistor, feedback resistor and capacitor) located close to the detector and a remote second stage located far from the detector. The element of novelty, with respect to similar configurations, is the fact that the connecting links between the very front-end and the second stage are made with transmission lines. As a result, wide bandwidth and closed-loop stability are maintained even if the distance between the very front-end and the second stage is much larger than usual, up to tens of meters. The circuit was named GeFRO for Germanium front-end, and was tested with a BEGe detector from Canberra. Timing resolutions of 20 ns (open loop) and 185 ns (closed loop with 60° phase margin) were obtained with 10 m long cables between the very front-end and the second stage. The noise of the circuit after a 10 μs Gaussian shaping was close to 160 e- RMS with an input capacitance of 26 pF. © 1963-2012 IEEE.
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