Course online on semiconductor radiation detectors 2021

19 Apr 2021, 10:00 → 30 Apr 2021, 19:00 Europe/Madrid

Zoom (Facultat de Física)

Barcelona Techno weeks are a series of meeting point events around a technological topic of interest for both academia and industry. They include comprehensive multidisciplinary keynote presentations by world experts that are combined with networking activities to foster collaboration among participants.

Course on semiconductor detectors

As the first Techno weeks in 2016 and 2018, the fifth edition includes a course on solid state radiation detection, from physics and electronics fundamentals to the state-of-the-art methods in radiation (X-ray, gamma-ray, charged particle) and visible light detection and applications.

This year, given the travel restrictions due to the pandemics, the organizing committee decided to do the training online combining the course with presentations from companies.

Objectives

1. Explain  fundamentals of interaction of radiation with matter and signal formation.
2. Understand different solid state radiation and photon detection technologies.
3. Review detector analog and digital pulse processing readout circuits.
4. Provide an insight of packaging and interconnect technologies.
5. Survey the use of radiation and photon detectors in industrial applications.
6. Present new trends in radiation and photon detection.

Who it is aimed at

The event is aimed at researchers, postdocs, PhD students and industry professionals, working in related fields: particle detectors, astronomy, space, medical imaging, scientific instrumentation, material analysis, neutron imaging, process monitoring and control, etc. The meeting offers a good opportunity for young researchers to meet with senior experts from academia and industry.

A certificate of attendance will be given to the participants of the course.

When

Week 1: April 19-23, 2021

Week 2: April 26-30, 2021

Teaching hours

DAILY	Central European Time CET (Barcelona)	Eastern Standard Time EST (New York)	Pacific Standard Time PST (California)	India Standard Time IST (India)
Module 1	3:00-4:35pm	9:00-10:30am	6:00-7:35am	6:30-8:05pm
Module 2	5:25-7:00pm	11:25am-01:00pm	8:25-10:00am	7:55-10:00pm

 

Lecturers

E. Auffray - CERN 

R. Ballabriga - CERN

G. Blaj - SLAC

M. Campbell - CERN 

R. Carmona - IMSE-CNM 

P. Collins - CERN

F. Faccio - CERN 

D. Gascón -ICCUB/IEEC 

E. Heijne - CERN & IEAP 

X. Llopart - CERN 

A. Nomerotski - BNL 

P. O'Connor - BNL

G. Pares - CEA 

A. Rivetti - INFN Torino 

Á. Rodríguez - IMSE-CNM 

H. Sabet - MGH/Harvard

F. Salvat - CERN 

D. Schaart - TU Delft 

W. Snoeys - CERN 

K. Taguchi - Johns Hopkins

S. Vahanen - Advacam O

S. Vinogradov - LPI RAS

C. Vallance- U. Oxford

 

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Acknowledgements

This event is part of the grant CEX2019-000918-M funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.

 

 

 

Sponsors

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Monday, 19 April

15:00 → 15:10 Welcome

15:10 → 15:20 Introduction

Speaker: David Gascón (dgascon@icc.ub.edu)

15:20 → 19:20 Sensors, Interconnects: Part 0: Introductory physics concepts

15:20 Particle detectors for HEP

Speaker: Dr P. Collins

17:25 Interaction of particles with Matter

Speaker: Dr F. Salvat

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

Tuesday, 20 April

15:00 → 16:35 Sensors, Interconnects: Part 0: Introductory physics concepts

15:00 Sensors, Interconnects

Speaker: Dr S. Vahanen

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

17:25 → 19:00 Sensors, Interconnects: 3D interconection

17:25 3D interconection

Speaker: Dr G. Parés

Wednesday, 21 April

15:00 → 19:10 Part 1: Microelectronics

15:00 Radiation effects on Electronics

Speaker: Dr F. Faccio

17:25 Pulse Processing Electronics (Amplification/Filtering/Discrimination)

Speaker: Dr P. O'Connor

16:40 → 17:00 Industrial Session: Direct Conversion

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

Thursday, 22 April

15:00 → 19:20 Part 1: Microelectronics

15:00 Pulse Processing Electronics (Analog to Digital Conversion/Time to Digital Conversion)

Speaker: Dr A. Rivetti

17:25 Design Methodologies

Speaker: Dr X. Llopart

16:40 → 17:00 Industrial Session

16:40 ams

Speaker: Josef Pertl

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

Friday, 23 April

14:55 → 19:10 Part 2: Solid state detector technologies

15:00 CMOS image and vision sensors

Speaker: Dr A. Rodriguez

17:25 Monolithic detectors, trends

Speaker: Dr W. Snoeys

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

Monday, 26 April

15:00 → 16:35 Part 2: Solid state detector technologies

15:00 Introduction to Hybrid pixel detectors

Speaker: Dr R. Ballabriga

15:50 Applications of Hybrid pixel detectors

Speaker: Dr M. Campbell

16:40 → 17:00 Industrial Session: CERN Knowledge Transfer Activities

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

17:25 → 19:00 Part 3: Applications

17:25 Photon Counting CT

Speaker: Dr K. Taguchi

Tuesday, 27 April

15:00 → 16:40 Part 2: Solid state detector technologies

15:00 Interface circuits for single-photon detection

Single photons are the ultimate detection limit for electromagnetic radiation. By sensing individual photons, their energy and polarization, we know all aspects of the incident radiation. In basic sciences, singles photons are at the experimental foundations of quantum mechanics and measurement theory. In applied sciences, single-photon detection and photon counting is employed in high energy physics, positron emission tomography, light detection and ranging, fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy, quantum communications, etc.
In this lecture we will review the basics of single-photon sensing with CMOS-compatible SPADs, the different types of quenching and recharge schemes, time-to-digital converters, SPAD arrays and SiPM-based pixels.

Speaker: Dr R. Carmona

15:50 Mass spectrometry Imaging

Speaker: Dr C. Vallance

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

17:25 → 20:25 Part 3: Applications

17:25 Imaging and time-stamping optical photons with nanosecond resolution

Speaker: Prof. A. Nomerotski

Wednesday, 28 April

15:00 → 16:35 Part 2: Solid state detector technologies

15:00 Scientillator materials

Speaker: Dr E. Auffray

16:40 → 17:00 Industrial Session

16:40 PITEC

Speaker: Larissa Helena Mendes

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

17:25 → 19:25 Part 3: Applications

17:25 Synchrotron and FEL Applications

Speaker: Dr G. Blaj

Thursday, 29 April

15:00 → 19:25 Part 3: Applications: SiPM technology I

15:00 SiPM technology

Speaker: Dr S. Vinogradov

17:25 Introduction to fast timing applications in Medical Physics and photosensors in fast timing scintillator detectors

Speaker: Dr D. Schaart

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break

Friday, 30 April

15:00 → 15:45 Part 2: Solid state detector technologies

15:00 Large Area Single Photon Sensors, applications and readout

Speaker: Prof. D. Gascón

15:50 → 19:00 Part 3: Applications

15:50 PET and SPECT

Speaker: Prof. Hamid Sabet

17:25 Medical Imaging

Speaker: Prof. Hamid Sabet

18:15 Closing Lecture: 78 years of semiconductor nuclear detectors, and more to come

The explanation of the photo-electric effect in 1905 literally shed light on the structure of matter. Nevertheless, it still took 38 more years before the first practical solid semiconducting devices exploited this understanding for detection of ionizing nuclear particles. From then on, a succession of innovations has led to widespread use of semiconductor nuclear detectors in physics, space exploration, materials analysis and medical imaging. The silicon-based micro-(now) nano-electronics technology continues to enable much of these semiconductor sensor developments.

Speaker: Prof. E. Heijne

16:40 → 17:00 Industrial Session: Hamamatsu

17:00 → 17:25 Coffee Break