Recommended Literature on Sensor design, characterization and readout

Basic Electronics for HEP semiconductor detectors

• HOW-TO on Baseline electrical characterization of (traditional, doped) semiconductor detectors Nicoleta Dinu, Fermilab Seminar 2003

Front-End Electronics

1. Analog digital design
2. Timing considerations.
3. See also his homepage with many other tutorials.
4. PhD thesis on Low noise preamp+amp chain design for capacitive load sensors

• LT1464 Quad ultralow noise JFET input op-amps.
• LT2351-14 Hex 14-bit ADC
• GALI-52+ DC - 2 GHz bandwidth RF amplifier used for ultra-fast current readout.

Diamond as a semiconductor detector sample

• Principle of energy loss of charged particles in any detector material by ionization.
  Chapter 2 from William Leo's textbook : Techniques of Nuclear and Particle Physics
  [MUST KNOW] Bethe-Bloch energy loss in thin materials; Landau-Vavilov distribution of dE/dx
• A review of Diamond detector development for LHC from the RD42 collaboration. The RD42 collaboration website links to many relevant publications.
• In particular, the Transient current technique detailed here is used to extract fast current signals and characterize the properties of a diamond detector sample.