Publications related to Gaseous ionization detector

Temperature, humidity, and ionisation effect of iodine oxoacid nucleation

Andrea Baccarini, Imad El Haddad, Lubna Dada, Houssni Lamkaddam

Iodine oxoacids are recognised for their significant contribution to the formation of new particles in marine and polar atmospheres. Nevertheless, to incorporate the iodine oxoacid nucleation mechanism into global simulations, it is essential to comprehend ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2024

Characterization of a flexible a-Si:H detector for in vivo dosimetry in therapeutic x-ray beams

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Luca Massimiliano Antognini, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Matthew James Large

BackgroundThe increasing use of complex and high dose-rate treatments in radiation therapy necessitates advanced detectors to provide accurate dosimetry. Rather than relying on pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) measurements alone, many countries are now ...

Wiley2024

Proton reconstruction with the CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer

Matthias Finger, Konstantin Androsov, Qian Wang, Jan Steggemann, Anna Mascellani, Yiming Li, Varun Sharma, Xin Chen, Arvind Shah, Rakesh Chawla, Matteo Galli, Jian Wang, João Miguel das Neves Duarte, Tagir Aushev, Matthias Wolf, Yi Zhang, Tian Cheng, Yixing Chen, Werner Lustermann, Andromachi Tsirou, Alexis Kalogeropoulos, Andrea Rizzi, Ioannis Papadopoulos, Paolo Ronchese, Hua Zhang, Leonardo Cristella, Siyuan Wang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Tao Huang, David Vannerom, Michele Bianco, Sebastiana Gianì, Sun Hee Kim, Davide Di Croce, Kun Shi, Wei Shi, Abhisek Datta, Jian Zhao, Federica Legger, Gabriele Grosso, Ji Hyun Kim, Donghyun Kim, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Method for manufacturing an active structure for a radiation detector and polymeric mold for the method

Alessandro Mapelli, Arnaud Bertsch, Fabrizio Carbone, Veronica Leccese

A method for manufacturing a scintillation detector structure including the steps of forming a plurality of first structures into a surface of a substrate to form a patterned substrate, filling the plurality of first structures and covering the surface of ...

2023

A comprehensive analysis of electron emission from a-Si:H/Al2O3 at low energies

Christophe Ballif, Nicolas Würsch, Jonathan Emanuel Thomet, Janina Christine Isabelle Löffler, Samira Alexandra Frey, Mohamed Belhaj

Recently developed microchannel plates (MCPs) based on amorphous silicon offer potential advantages with respect to glass based ones. In this context, secondary electron emission (SEE) at very low energies below 100 eV has been studied for relevant materia ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Single-photon avalanche diode fabricated in standard 55 nm bipolar-CMOS-DMOS technology with sub-20 V breakdown voltage

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Won Yong Ha, Myung Jae Lee

This paper presents a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) in 55 nm bipolar-CMOSDMOS (BCD) technology. In order to realize a SPAD having sub-20 V breakdown voltage for mobile applications while preventing high tunneling noise, a high-voltage N-well availab ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

High-Resolution Photoemission Study of Neutron-Induced Defects in Amorphous Hydrogenated Silicon Devices

Sylvain Dunand, Nicolas Würsch, Matthew James Large, Giulia Rossi

In this paper, by means of high-resolution photoemission, soft X-ray absorption and atomic force microscopy, we investigate, for the first time, the mechanisms of damaging, induced by neutron source, and recovering (after annealing) of p-i-n detector devic ...

MDPI2022

Standard-Free Quantification of Dicarboxylic Acids: Case Studies with Salt-Rich Effluents and Serum

Christian Ludwig, Daniil Salionov, Sasa Bjelic

The present study evaluates the ionization efficiency (IE) of linear and branched C2–C14 dicarboxylic acids (DCAs) by electrospray ionization (ESI) under different conditions. The influence of the concentration of organic modifier (MeOH); mobile phase addi ...

2022

Development of a Data Concentrator ASIC for the High Luminosity upgrade of the CMS Outer Tracker detector with tracking trigger

Simone Scarfì

With the increasing capabilities of the microelectronics technology, future particle detectors in high energy physics will be able to yield high-level features that are not only simple geometrical positions or energy measurement in the silicon sensors used ...

EPFL2021

Virtual metrology as an approach for product quality estimation in Industry 4.0: a systematic review and integrative conceptual framework

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Gökan May, Foivos Psarommatis Giannakopoulos

Virtual metrology (VM) involves estimating a product's quality directly from production process data without physically measuring it. This enables the product quality of each unit of production to be monitored in real time, while preserving the process eff ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2022

CORE SIM+ simulations of COLIBRI fuel rods oscillation experiments and comparison with measurements

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Oskari Ville Pakari, Pavel Frajtag, Axel Guy Marie Laureau, Adolfo Rais, Daniel Godat, Paolo Vinai

At EPFL, the CROCUS reactor has been used to carry out experiments with vibrating fuel rods. The paper presents a first attempt to employ the measured data to validate CORE SIM+, a neutron noise solver developed at Chalmers University of Technology. For th ...

2021

The operational space for divertor power exhaust in DEMO with a super-X divertor

Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Mirko Wensing

SOLPS-ITER simulations of the European DEMO reactor with a Super-X divertor, which has larger major radius at the outer target and increased connection length, show an increased operational space for divertor power exhaust compared to the conventional sing ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Ionizing-Radiation Response and Low-Frequency Noise of 28-nm MOSFETs at Ultrahigh Doses

Christian Enz

Total ionizing dose (TID) mechanisms are investigated in 28-nm MOSFETs via dc static and low-frequency noise measurements. nMOSFETs and pMOSFETs are irradiated up to 1 Grad(SiO2) and annealed at high temperatures. TID sensitivity depends on the channel len ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Light microscope with photon-counting detector elements and imaging method

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic

A light microscope comprises a light source (10) for illuminating a specimen (35), a photon-counting detector array (60) with a plurality of photon-counting detector elements (61-64) for measuring detection light (15) coming from the specimen (35), wherein ...

2020

Humidity Sensors for High Energy Physics Applications: A Review

Sandro Carrara, Andromachi Tsirou, Amar Kapic

Modern silicon-based detectors for high-energy physics operate in an experimental environment with sub-zero temperatures. At those temperatures, even low traces of humidity will produce vapor condensation with damages to the detectors. Monitoring relative ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Modeling of Total Ionizing Dose Degradation on 180-nm n-MOSFETs Using BSIM3

Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Mustafa Berke Yelten, Sadik Ilik

This paper presents a modeling approach to simulate the impact of total ionizing dose (TID) degradation on low-power analog and mixed-signal circuits. The modeling approach has been performed on 180-nm n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transist ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

Deep neural networks for plasma tomography with applications to JET and COMPASS

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yiming Li, Basil Duval, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Henri Weisen, Federico Nespoli, Alessandro Pau, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Hamish William Patten, Cristian Sommariva, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Samuel Lanthaler, Haomin Sun, Michele Marin, Richard Pitts, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Yao Zhou, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Emiliano Fable, Francesca Maria Poli, Daniele Brunetti, Anna Teplukhina, Alberto Mariani, Kenji Tanaka, Bernhard Sieglin, Otto Asunta, Gergely Papp, Leonardo Pigatto

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have found applications in many image processing tasks, such as feature extraction, image classification, and object recognition. It has also been shown that the inverse of CNNs, so-called deconvolutional neural network ...

2019

Achieving high-resolution thermal imagery in low-contrast lake surface waters by aerial remote sensing and image registration

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Daniel Sage, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

A two-platform measurement system for realizing airborne thermography of the Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) with ~0.8 m pixel resolution (sub-pixel satellite scale) is presented. It consists of a tethered Balloon Launched Imaging and Monitoring Plat ...

2019

Innovative Lab on Fiber dosimeters for ionizing radiation monitoring at ultra-high doses

Georgi Gorine, Federico Ravotti

We report on a innovative Lab on Fiber (LOF) dosimeter for ionizing radiation monitoring at ultra-high doses. The new dosimeter consists in a metallo-dielectric resonator at sub-wavelength scale supporting localized surface plasmon resonances realized on t ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Mobility Degradation of 28-nm Bulk MOSFETs Irradiated to Ultrahigh Total Ionizing Doses

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Chunmin Zhang

Using the Y-function method, this paper experimentally investigates the effects of total ionizing dose up to 1 Grad on the channel mobility of a commercial 28-nm bulk CMOS process. ...

IEEE2018