Gigasensors for an Attoscope: Catching Quanta in CMOS
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Heijne, Erik H.M.
- Source
- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter IEEE Solid-State Circuits Soc. Newsl. Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, IEEE. 13(4):28-34 Jan, 2008
- Subject
- Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Pixel
Detectors
Silicon
CMOS integrated circuits
Arrays
Temperature sensors
Temperature measurement
- Language
- ISSN
- 1098-4232
Around 1987, Eric Vittoz studied the basic parameters for the development of 'pixel' particle tracking detectors in collaboration with a team in Geneva at CERN. CERN scientist Erik Heijne traces the evolution of these particle imagers, which has resulted in matrices of 256x256 pixels with > 1000 transistors per pixel that can process single quanta and have connections with neighboring cells allowing analog and logic operations at ns time-scale for distributed events.