Advances in Sensor Readout Electronics for Precise Timing

Dear Colleagues,

Electronic design for the readout of fast radiation detectors is a very active field of research. The advances in this area have potential applications in many fields of science, such as physics, medicine, chemistry, and biology, among others.

In the past decade, there has been steady progress in detector developments and their readout electronics. This includes new front-end circuits in very deep submicron CMOS technologies and advances in time-to-digital converters (TDCs). Additionally, the availability of vertical integration technologies is paving the way for new advances in the field.

The goal is to create a well-balanced collection of papers that will help to map the application of microelectronics design in instruments for various application areas and identify the perspectives and open challenges for future developments.

We would like to invite authors to submit papers related to research and applications in sensor readout electronics for precise time measurements. The topics include but are not limited to:

• Electronics for the readout of silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs);
• Photomultiplier tube (PMT) and micro channel plate PMT (MCP-PMT) readout;
• Silicon sensor readout electronics;
• Analog and digital ASIC readout;
• Time-to-digital converters (TDCs);
• Monolithic active pixel detectors;
• Hybrid pixel detector readout ASICs;
• New trends in interconnection (vertical integration);
• Detectors (crystals, readout electronics (ASIC), and detector systems);
• Applications (high energy physics, medical (e.g. positron emission tomography), mass spectrometry, LIDAR, biology, quantum applications).

Prof. Dr. David Gascon
Dr. Rafael Ballabriga
Guest Editors

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