Development of radiation tolerant semiconductor detectors for the Super-LHC (2005)
Moll, M., Adey, J., Al-Ajili, A., Alfieri, G., Allport, P. P., Artuso, M., ...
The envisaged upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN towards the Super-LHC (SLHC) with a 10 times increased luminosity of 10(35) cm(-2) s(-1) Will present severe challenges for the...
Radiation-hard semiconductor detectors for SuperLHC (2005)
Bruzzi, M., Adey, J., Al-Ajili, A., Alexandrov, P., Alfieri, G., Allport, P. P., ...
An option of increasing the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to 1035 cm-2 s-1 has been envisaged to extend the physics reach of the machine. An efficient tracking down to a few...
Recent advancements in the development of radiation hard semiconductor detectors for S-LHC (2005)
Fretwurst, E., Adey, J., Al-Ajili, A., Alfieri, G., Allport, P. P., Artuso, M., ...
The proposed luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (S-LHC) at CERN will demand the innermost layers of the vertex detectors to sustain fluences of about 10(16) hadrons/cm(2). Due to the...
Radiation-hard semiconductor detectors for SuperLHC (2005)
Bruzzi, M., Adey, J., Al-Ajili, A., Alexandrov, P., Alfieri, G., Allport, P. P., ...
An option of increasing the luminosity of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN to 1035 cm-2 s-1 has been envisaged to extend the physics reach of the machine. An efficient tracking down to a few...
Recent advancements in the development of radiation hard semiconductor detectors for S-LHC (2005)
Fretwurst, E., Adey, J., Al-Ajili, A., Alfieri, G., Allport, P. P., Artuso, M., ...
The proposed luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (S-LHC) at CERN will demand the innermost layers of the vertex detectors to sustain fluences of about 10(16) hadrons/cm(2). Due to the...
Development of radiation tolerant semiconductor detectors for the Super-LHC (2005)
Moll, M., Adey, J., Al-Ajili, A., Alfieri, G., Allport, P. P., Artuso, M., ...
The envisaged upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN towards the Super-LHC (SLHC) with a 10 times increased luminosity of 10(35) cm(-2) s(-1) Will present severe challenges for the...
Probing bulk and surface damage in widegap semiconductors (2001)
Cunningham, W., Gouldwell, A., Lamb, G., Roy, P., Scott, J., Mathieson, K., ...
Plasma etching of the widegap materials SiC and GaN is very important as there are only limited wet etches available. However, this is known to introduce defects into surface layers under typical...
Probing bulk and surface damage in widegap semiconductors (2001)
Cunningham, W., Gouldwell, A., Lamb, G., Roy, P., Scott, J., Mathieson, K., ...
Plasma etching of the widegap materials SiC and GaN is very important as there are only limited wet etches available. However, this is known to introduce defects into surface layers under typical...
Charge sharing in silicon pixel detectors (2001)
Mathieson, K, Passmore, M S, Seller, P, Prydderch, M L, O'Shea, V, Bates, R L, ...
Performance of an energy resolving X-ray pixel detector
Bates, R., Derbyshire, G., Gannon, W.J.F., Iles, G., Lowe, B., Mathieson, K., ...
We have built a back-illuminated, silicon X-ray detector with 16 x 16 pixels. This is bump-bonded to an integrated circuit containing a corresponding array of pre-amplifiers. The bump- bonded unit is...
Fabrication of microelectrode arrays for neural measurements from retinal tissue
Cunningham, W., Mathieson, K., Mcewan, F.A., Blue, A., McGeachy, R., Mcleod, J.A., ...
The production of high-density, large-area microelectrode arrays for neurophysiology studies requires a combination of electron beam lithography and photolithography, together with dry etch pattern...
Performance of bulk SiC radiation detectors
Cunningham, W., Gouldwell, A., Lamb, G., Scott, J., Mathieson, K., Roy, P., ...
SiC is a wide-gap material with excellent electrical and physical properties that may make it an important material for some future electronic devices. The most important possible applications of SiC...
Pixel detectors for use in retina neurophysiology studies
Cunningham, W., Mathieson, K., Horn, M., Melone, J., Mcewan, F.A., Blue, A., ...
One area of major inter-disciplinary co-operation is between the particle physics and bio-medical communities. The type of large detector arrays and fast electronics developed in laboratories like...
Detective quantum efficiency of the Medipix pixel detector
Davidson, D.W., Watt, J., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., ...
We have measured the intrinsic performance of a digital X-ray detector, the Medipix1, by examining the total detective quantum efficiency (DQE). We studied how the DQE depends on both the incident...
Charge sharing in silicon pixel detectors
Mathieson, K., Passmore, M.S., Seller, P., Prydderch, M.L., O'Shea, V., Bates, R.L., ...
We used a pixellated hybrid silicon X-ray detector to study the effect of the sharing of generated charge between neighbouring pixels over a range of incident X-ray energies, 13-36keV. The system is...
Detection of retinal signals using position sensitive microelectrode arrays
Mathieson, K., Cunningham, W., Marchal, J., Melone, J., Horn, M., Gunning, D., ...
The development of high-density, multi-channel circuitry for the detection of low-level signals in particle physics has potential application in other areas of science. Here we use this technology to...
Fabricating high-density microarrays for retinal recording
Mathieson, K., Cunningham, W., Marchal, J., Melone, J., Horn, M., O'Shea, V., ...
Understanding how the retina encodes the visual scene is a problem, which requires large area, high-density microelectrode arrays to solve. The correlated signals that emerge from the output...
Simulated and experimental results from a room temperature silicon X-ray pixel detector
Mathieson, K., Bates, R., Iles, G.M., Manolopoulos, S., O'Shea, V., Passmore, S., ...
Simulated and experimental results are presented from a silicon X-ray pixel detector which is bump bonded to a PACS pixel array of read-out electronics. When coupled to a matching, fully depleted...
Simulation of GaAs 3-D pixel detectors
Mathieson, K., Bates, R., Meikle, A., O'Shea, V., Passmore, M.S., Rahman, M., ...
The performance of an architecture for X-ray pixel detectors is discussed. The three-dimensional (3-D) structure has electrodes which penetrate the bulk of the detector medium allowing low- bias,...
The simulation of charge sharing in semiconductor X-ray pixel detectors
Mathieson, K., Bates, R., O'Shea, V., Passmore, M.S., Rahman, M., Smith, K.M., ...
Two simulation packages were used to model the sharing of charge, due to the scattering and diffusion of carriers, between adjacent pixel elements in semiconductors X-ray detectors. The X-ray...
Meikle, A.R., Bates, R.L., Ledingham, K., Marsh, J.H., Mathieson, K., O'Shea, V., ...
A novel type of GaAs radiation detector featuring a 3-D array of electrodes that penetrate through the detector bulk is described, The development of the technology to fabricate such a detector is...
Characterisation of a single photon counting pixel detector
Passmore, M.S., Bates, R., Mathieson, K., O'Shea, V., Rahman, M., Seller, P., ...
The Large Area Detector is a photon counting detector based on pixel readout ASICs with 64 x 64 arrays of 150 mum square pixels bump bonded to a 300 mum thick Si detector. It is designed for X-ray...
Technology development of 3D detectors for medical imaging
Pellegrini, G., Roy, P., Al Ajili, A., Bates, R., Haddad, L., Horn, M., ...
Fabrication routes to realising '3D' detectors in gallium arsenide have been investigated and their electrical characteristics measured. The geometry of the detector is hexagonal with a central anode...
Technology development of 3D detectors for high-energy physics and imaging
Pellegrini, G., Roy, P., Bates, R., Jones, D., Mathieson, K., Melone, J., ...
Various fabrications routes to create '3D' detectors have been investigated and the electrical characteristics of these structures have been compared to simulations. The geometry of the detectors is...
Applications of pixellated GaAs X-ray detectors in a synchrotron radiation beam
Watt, J., Bates, R., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., Mikulec, B., O'Shea, V., ...
Hybrid semiconductor pixel detectors are being investigated as imaging devices for radiography and synchrotron radiation beam applications. Based on previous work in the CERN RD19 and the UK IMPACT...
A new dimension to semiconductor detectors in high-energy physics and medical imaging
Wright, V., Davidson, D., Mathieson, K., O'Shea, V., Pellegrini, G., Roy, P., ...
The search for new semiconductor detectors has led to interesting developments in recent years. As well as progress in the use of new materials, novel geometries have been tried. One idea being...
Large-area microelectrode arrays for recording of neural signals
Mathieson, K., Kachiguine, S., Adams, C., Cunningham, W., Gunning, D., O'Shea, V., ...
To understand the neural code, that the retina uses to communicate the visual scene to the brain, large-area microelectrode arrays are needed to record retinal signals simultaneously from many...
Performance of an energy resolving X-ray pixel detector
Bates, R., Derbyshire, G., Gannon, W.J.F., Iles, G., Lowe, B., Mathieson, K., ...
We have built a back-illuminated, silicon X-ray detector with 16 x 16 pixels. This is bump-bonded to an integrated circuit containing a corresponding array of pre-amplifiers. The bump- bonded unit is...
Fabrication of microelectrode arrays for neural measurements from retinal tissue
Cunningham, W., Mathieson, K., Mcewan, F.A., Blue, A., McGeachy, R., Mcleod, J.A., ...
The production of high-density, large-area microelectrode arrays for neurophysiology studies requires a combination of electron beam lithography and photolithography, together with dry etch pattern...
Performance of bulk SiC radiation detectors
Cunningham, W., Gouldwell, A., Lamb, G., Scott, J., Mathieson, K., Roy, P., ...
SiC is a wide-gap material with excellent electrical and physical properties that may make it an important material for some future electronic devices. The most important possible applications of SiC...
Pixel detectors for use in retina neurophysiology studies
Cunningham, W., Mathieson, K., Horn, M., Melone, J., Mcewan, F.A., Blue, A., ...
One area of major inter-disciplinary co-operation is between the particle physics and bio-medical communities. The type of large detector arrays and fast electronics developed in laboratories like...
Detective quantum efficiency of the Medipix pixel detector
Davidson, D.W., Watt, J., Tlustos, L., Mikulec, B., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., ...
We have measured the intrinsic performance of a digital X-ray detector, the Medipix1, by examining the total detective quantum efficiency (DQE). We studied how the DQE depends on both the incident...
Charge sharing in silicon pixel detectors
Mathieson, K., Passmore, M.S., Seller, P., Prydderch, M.L., O'Shea, V., Bates, R.L., ...
We used a pixellated hybrid silicon X-ray detector to study the effect of the sharing of generated charge between neighbouring pixels over a range of incident X-ray energies, 13-36keV. The system is...
Detection of retinal signals using position sensitive microelectrode arrays
Mathieson, K., Cunningham, W., Marchal, J., Melone, J., Horn, M., Gunning, D., ...
The development of high-density, multi-channel circuitry for the detection of low-level signals in particle physics has potential application in other areas of science. Here we use this technology to...
Fabricating high-density microarrays for retinal recording
Mathieson, K., Cunningham, W., Marchal, J., Melone, J., Horn, M., O'Shea, V., ...
Understanding how the retina encodes the visual scene is a problem, which requires large area, high-density microelectrode arrays to solve. The correlated signals that emerge from the output...
Simulated and experimental results from a room temperature silicon X-ray pixel detector
Mathieson, K., Bates, R., Iles, G.M., Manolopoulos, S., O'Shea, V., Passmore, S., ...
Simulated and experimental results are presented from a silicon X-ray pixel detector which is bump bonded to a PACS pixel array of read-out electronics. When coupled to a matching, fully depleted...
Simulation of GaAs 3-D pixel detectors
Mathieson, K., Bates, R., Meikle, A., O'Shea, V., Passmore, M.S., Rahman, M., ...
The performance of an architecture for X-ray pixel detectors is discussed. The three-dimensional (3-D) structure has electrodes which penetrate the bulk of the detector medium allowing low- bias,...
The simulation of charge sharing in semiconductor X-ray pixel detectors
Mathieson, K., Bates, R., O'Shea, V., Passmore, M.S., Rahman, M., Smith, K.M., ...
Two simulation packages were used to model the sharing of charge, due to the scattering and diffusion of carriers, between adjacent pixel elements in semiconductors X-ray detectors. The X-ray...
Meikle, A.R., Bates, R.L., Ledingham, K., Marsh, J.H., Mathieson, K., O'Shea, V., ...
A novel type of GaAs radiation detector featuring a 3-D array of electrodes that penetrate through the detector bulk is described, The development of the technology to fabricate such a detector is...
Characterisation of a single photon counting pixel detector
Passmore, M.S., Bates, R., Mathieson, K., O'Shea, V., Rahman, M., Seller, P., ...
The Large Area Detector is a photon counting detector based on pixel readout ASICs with 64 x 64 arrays of 150 mum square pixels bump bonded to a 300 mum thick Si detector. It is designed for X-ray...
Technology development of 3D detectors for medical imaging
Pellegrini, G., Roy, P., Al Ajili, A., Bates, R., Haddad, L., Horn, M., ...
Fabrication routes to realising '3D' detectors in gallium arsenide have been investigated and their electrical characteristics measured. The geometry of the detector is hexagonal with a central anode...
Technology development of 3D detectors for high-energy physics and imaging
Pellegrini, G., Roy, P., Bates, R., Jones, D., Mathieson, K., Melone, J., ...
Various fabrications routes to create '3D' detectors have been investigated and the electrical characteristics of these structures have been compared to simulations. The geometry of the detectors is...
Applications of pixellated GaAs X-ray detectors in a synchrotron radiation beam
Watt, J., Bates, R., Campbell, M., Mathieson, K., Mikulec, B., O'Shea, V., ...
Hybrid semiconductor pixel detectors are being investigated as imaging devices for radiography and synchrotron radiation beam applications. Based on previous work in the CERN RD19 and the UK IMPACT...
A new dimension to semiconductor detectors in high-energy physics and medical imaging
Wright, V., Davidson, D., Mathieson, K., O'Shea, V., Pellegrini, G., Roy, P., ...
The search for new semiconductor detectors has led to interesting developments in recent years. As well as progress in the use of new materials, novel geometries have been tried. One idea being...
Large-area microelectrode arrays for recording of neural signals
Mathieson, K., Kachiguine, S., Adams, C., Cunningham, W., Gunning, D., O'Shea, V., ...
To understand the neural code, that the retina uses to communicate the visual scene to the brain, large-area microelectrode arrays are needed to record retinal signals simultaneously from many...