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Blumino: The First Fully Integrated Analog SiPM With On-Chip Time Conversion

Muntean, Andrada  
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Venialgo, Esteban  
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Ardelean, Andrei  
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September 1, 2021
Ieee Transactions On Radiation And Plasma Medical Sciences

Blumino is the first analog silicon photomultiplier with integrated amplifier, comparator and time-to-digital converter (TDC). The combination of a photodetector together with on-chip readout circuitry enables system-level advantages, such as internal parasitic reduction, compactness and simplicity. The analog silicon photomultiplier has a third output, called fast terminal (FT), in addition to the anode and cathode, which is used for timing measurements. The analog silicon photomultiplier presents excellent photon detection efficiency greater than 40% at 420 nm, making it suitable for positron-emission tomography. Measurement results of the TDC indicate a resolution of 128 ps least significant bit (LSB) with a differential nonlinearity and integral nonlinearity of -1/+5 LSB and -2.4/+0.9 LSB, respectively. The discriminator comprises two preamplifier stages followed by a complementary self-biased differential amplifier stage which is coupled to the analog silicon photomultiplier's FT through a decoupling capacitor. The sensor is also fully backward-compatible through the standard output which can be coupled to dedicated ASICs and standard readout integrated circuits. In addition to the electrical, radiation, and optical performance, the integration of a custom CMOS analog silicon photomultiplier process with standard CMOS process was investigated.

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DOI
10.1109/TRPMS.2020.3045081
Web of Science ID

WOS:000692207700011

Author(s)
Muntean, Andrada  
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Venialgo, Esteban  
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Ardelean, Andrei  
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Sachdeva, Ashish
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Ripiccini, Emanuele  
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Palubiak, Darek
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Jackson, Carl
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Charbon, Edoardo  
Date Issued

2021-09-01

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Transactions On Radiation And Plasma Medical Sciences
Volume

5

Issue

5

Start page

671

End page

678

Subjects

Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging

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analog silicon photomultiplier

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comparator

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complementary self-biased differential amplifier (csda)

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fast terminal (ft)

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fully integrated

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time-to-digital converter (tdc)

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