High Speed Particle Analysis with a Silicon Drift Detector

Use of a silicon drift detector for cathodoluminescence detection

Phase Frequency Detector Using Transmission Gates for High Speed Applications

In this paper a new phase-frequency detector is proposed using transmission gates which can detect phase difference less than 500ps. In other word, the proposed Phase-frequency Detector (PFD) can work in frequencies higher than 1.7 GHz, whereas a conventional PFD operates at frequencies less than 1.1 GHz. This new architecture is designed in TSMC 0.13um CMOS Technology. Also, the proposed PFD a...

Vortextm – a New High Performance Silicon Drift Detector for Xrd and Xrf Applications

A new class of silicon drift detectors (SDD), called “VortexTM”, with a large active area (~ 0.5 cm), high-energy resolution (<150 eV FWHM) and high-count rate capability (>1 Mcps) has been developed for X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) applications. The VortexTM design allows for a relatively large active area while still maintaining a very low anode capacitance (~ 60 fF). ...

Flexible silicon-based alpha-particle detector

Software for drift compensation, particle tracking and particle analysis of high-speed atomic force microscopy image series.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) image acquisition is performed by raster-scanning a faint tip with respect to the sample by the use of a piezoelectric stage that is guided by a feedback system. This process implies that the resulting images feature particularities that distinguish them from images acquired by other techniques, such as the drift of the piezoelectric elements, the unequal image con...