A Prototype ASIC for APD Array Readout of Scintillating Plastic Fibers

John R. Macri; Alan Wintenberg; Mark Widholm; Usha Jagadish; James Ledoux; Mark L. McConnell; S. Shane Frank; Hansford Cutlip

A Prototype ASIC for APD Array Readout of Scintillating Plastic Fibers

John R. Macri, Alan Wintenberg, Mark Widholm, Usha Jagadish, James Ledoux, Mark L. McConnell, S. Shane Frank, Hansford Cutlip

Sensors and Electronics

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We report on the development of custom front-end electronics for use with avalanche photodiode (APD) arrays as part of a NASA technology study for the readout of scintillating plastic fibers. APD arrays featuring 64 1 mm square pixels are used. We demonstrate that a pixel of these APD arrays coupled to relatively thin (0.25 mm) and short (15 cm) scintillating plastic fibers can be used to detect and measure the tracks of even minimum ionizing particles (MIPs). An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) implementation of the electronics is required to produce a detector sufficiently compact for practical use in a flight experiment featuring many thousands of channels. This paper briefly describes the detector concept and performance and presents the design and performance of a four-channel prototype ASIC fabricated using the 0.35 micron TSMC process.

Original language	English
Pages	106-110
Number of pages	5
State	Published - 2002
Event	2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record - Norfolk, VA, United States Duration: Nov 10 2002 → Nov 16 2002

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Conference	2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
Country/Territory	United States
City	Norfolk, VA
Period	11/10/02 → 11/16/02

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A Prototype ASIC for APD Array Readout of Scintillating Plastic Fibers

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