A single-photon sensitive ebCMOS camera: The LUSIPHER prototype

R&D paths of pixel detectors for vertex tracking and radiation imaging

“…In the scenarios of energy upgrades, the dose scales with the inelastic cross section within the geometrical acceptance and the expected damage increases almost proportional with the beam energy. Vertex detectors will be exposed to a fluence, mostly due to charged hadrons, ranging from 1-3×10 15 1 MeV neutron equivalent cm −2 after an integrated luminosity of 300 fb −1 up to ∼10 16 1 MeV neutron equivalent cm −2 after ∼3000 fb −1 at a radius of 32 mm in the general purpose experiments and for the innermost tip of the LHCb VELO upgrade detector after 100 fb −1 . Concerning the non-ionising radiation effects, many macroscopic bulk parameters of Si detectors change due to irradiation.…”

“…There is a broad spectrum of other applications of semiconductor pixel technologies developed towards the specifications of these experiments. Their number and diversity is growing, as new facilities put emphasis on specs, such as frame rate, radiation tolerance and space-time resolution, which are the primary focus of the HEP-driven R&D. Examples of the fields where pixels developed from results of R&D for collider experiments include imaging at light sources [2][3][4] and free electron lasers (FEL) [5], including hybrid [6] and DEPFET [7] technologies, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), with hybrid [8,9] and monolithic sensors [10,11], plasma diagnostics, biological imaging [12], auto-radiography, with hybrid and monolithic CMOS [13] and DEPFET [14] pixels, fluorescence microscopy, with monolithic pixels [15], and medical imaging, with hybrid pixels [16], beam monitoring and diagnostics for future accelerators, ion-beam analysis [17] and real-time dose delivery assessment and quality assurance in hadron therapy [18,19]. There are also examples of returns of these developments to the benefit of HEP applications, as discussed in section 5.…”

An acquisition system for CMOS imagers with a genuine 10Gbit/s bandwidth

“…The ebCMOS detector has been already presented in details in Ref. [1]. The acquisition board is connected to the workstation through a single 10 Gbit/s Ethernet link.…”

“…The acquisition system for CIS readout with a genuine 10 Gbit/s bandwidth presented in this paper meets this challenge. This acquisition system is not a pure conceptual attempt on an acquisition system but is driven by low light imaging and single-particle tracking with the ebCMOS camera, LUSIPHER [1].…”

A study for the detection of ionizing particles with gate-controlled phototransistor on SOI substrate

“…Many devices such as EMCCD [1], SPAD [2] Electron bombardment CCD or CMOS [3][4][5] can achieve the limit of sensitivity. Among them, the EBCMOS are hybrid photon detections, which can detect high energy ionizing particles and are regarded as the next generation low light vision [5].…”