Literature Background - BTP and MSc projects 2015-16

When in doubt, refer to the IEEE encyclopedia. Any person found referring to Wikipedia will be impolitely escorted out of the lab.

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Very informative web-seminar from Tektronix on the finer points of operating a high bandwidth DSO to maximize signal resolution

High speed, low noise signal transmission

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Elementary notes on how reflections in coax cables affect signal amplitudes
SAMTEC Signal transmission handbook
IBM Signal Transmission Tutorials Part A and Part B
Tektronix Fundamentals of Signal Integrity deals with mixed signals especially
Optical distribution of RF for the NLC
Digital on-chip signal transmission issues from Alterra

Basic Electronics for HEP semiconductor detectors

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

Electronics for particle detectors - basic and advanced concepts

[MUST READ] Lecture Notes by Helmuth Spieler on Design of readout electronics:

Analog and digital design
Timing considerations.
See also Helmuth Spieler's homepage with many other tutorials.
An expanded version of the lecture notes has been published in e-book format Semiconductor Detector Systems by Oxford University Press (2007). It is available through the IIT-B central library. Chapter 9 of the e-book is especially usefully once you start building things in the lab.
Semiconductor radiation detectors: device physics by Gerhard Lutz (Springer 1999) is another good book on the intrinsic detector response of semiconductors. Paper copies are available for issue in the IITB central library.

Diamond as a semiconductor detector sample

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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.

Ohmic contacts to Diamond sensors

[2013] MTech thesis from Tokyo Inst of Tech on Au/Pt/Ti contact formation to diamond here
[2010] Si/Al ohmic contacts to diamond. Electronics Letters Vol 46 No. 11 here
[2009] MTech thesis from Univ. Basel on fabrication and characterization of Ohmic contacts to GaAs structures here
[2006] Schottky contacts to single crystal CVD diamond here
[1990] North Carolina State Tech note on Mo/Au contact formation to diamond here
[1967 - old!] Electrical contacts to diamond Proceedings of Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 1967 here
Chapter 8 of the book: Diamond : electronic properties and applications edited by Lawrence S. Pan and Don R. Kania Boston : Kluwer Academic Pub., 1995 1995 Available in IIT B Central Library, and also on Google Books
Bristol University CVD diamond group has many useful resources and publications. In particular this thesis chapter has useful information and references.