Analog Electronics for Radiation Detection

<p><strong>Analog Electronics for Radiation Detection</strong> showcases the latest advances in readout electronics for particle or radiation detectors. Featuring chapters written by international experts in their respective fields this authoritative text:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Defines the main design parameters of front-end circuitry developed in microelectronics technologies</li> <li>Explains the basis for the use of complementary metal–oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors for the detection of charged particles and other non-consumer applications</li> <li>Delivers an in-depth review of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) evaluating the pros and cons of ADCs integrated at the pixel column and per-chip levels</li> <li>Describes incremental sigma–delta ADCs time-to-digital converter (TDC) architectures and digital pulse-processing techniques complementary to analog processing</li> <li>Examines the fundamental parameters and front-end types associated with silicon photomultipliers used for single visible-light photon detection</li> <li>Discusses pixel sensors with per-pixel TDCs channel density challenges and emerging 3D technologies interconnecting detectors and electronics</li> </ul><p>Thus<b> Analog Electronics for Radiation Detection </b>provides a single source for state-of-the-art information on analog electronics for the readout of radiation detectors.</p>