Threshold-independent method for single-shot readout of spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots

The single-shot readout data process is essential for the realization of high-fidelity qubits and fault-tolerant quantum algorithms in semiconductor quantum dots. However, the fidelity and visibility of the readout process are sensitive to the choice of the thresholds and limited by the experimental hardware. By demonstrating the linear dependence between the measured spin state probabilities and readout visibilities along with dark counts, we describe an alternative threshold-independent method for the single-shot readout of spin qubits in semiconductor quantum dots. We can obtain the extrapolated spin state probabilities of the prepared probabilities of the excited spin state through the threshold-independent method. We then analyze the corresponding errors of the method, finding that errors of the extrapolated probabilities cannot be neglected with no constraints on the readout time and threshold voltage. Therefore, by limiting the readout time and threshold voltage, we ensure the accuracy of the extrapolated probability. We then prove that the efficiency and robustness of this method are 60 times larger than those of the most commonly used method. Moreover, we discuss the influence of the electron temperature on the effective area with a fixed external magnetic field and provide a preliminary demonstration for a single-shot readout of up to 0.7K/1.5T in the future.

Design and prototyping of the readout electronics for the transition radiation detector in the high energy cosmic radiation detection facility

The high energy cosmic-radiation detection(HERD)facility is planned to launch in 2027 and scheduled to be installed on the China Space Station.It serves as a dark matter particle detector,a cosmic ray instrument,and an observatory for high-energy gamma rays.A transition radiation detector placed on one of its lateral sides serves dual purpose,(ⅰ)calibrating HERD's electromagnetic calorimeter in the TeV energy range,and(ⅱ)serving as an independent detector for high-energy gamma rays.In this paper,the prototype readout electronics design of the transition radiation detector is demonstrated,which aims to accurately measure the charge of the anodes using the SAMPA application specific integrated circuit chip.The electronic performance of the prototype system is evaluated in terms of noise,linearity,and resolution.Through the presented design,each electronic channel can achieve a dynamic range of 0–100 fC,the RMS noise level not exceeding 0.15 fC,and the integral nonlinearity was<0.2%.To further verify the readout electronic performance,a joint test with the detector was carried out,and the results show that the prototype system can satisfy the requirements of the detector's scientific goals.

Studies of an event-building algorithm of the readout system for the twin TPCs in HFRS

The High-energy Fragment Separator(HFRS),which is currently under construction,is a leading international radioactive beam device.Multiple sets of position-sensitive twin time projection chamber(TPC)detectors are distributed on HFRS for particle identification and beam monitoring.The twin TPCs'readout electronics system operates in a trigger-less mode due to its high counting rate,leading to a challenge of handling large amounts of data.To address this problem,we introduced an event-building algorithm.This algorithm employs a hierarchical processing strategy to compress data during transmission and aggregation.In addition,it reconstructs twin TPCs'events online and stores only the reconstructed particle information,which significantly reduces the burden on data transmission and storage resources.Simulation studies demonstrated that the algorithm accurately matches twin TPCs'events and reduces more than 98%of the data volume at a counting rate of 500 kHz/channel.

Quantum generative adversarial networks based on a readout error mitigation method with fault tolerant mechanism

Readout errors caused by measurement noise are a significant source of errors in quantum circuits,which severely affect the output results and are an urgent problem to be solved in noisy-intermediate scale quantum(NISQ)computing.In this paper,we use the bit-flip averaging(BFA)method to mitigate frequent readout errors in quantum generative adversarial networks(QGAN)for image generation,which simplifies the response matrix structure by averaging the qubits for each random bit-flip in advance,successfully solving problems with high cost of measurement for traditional error mitigation methods.Our experiments were simulated in Qiskit using the handwritten digit image recognition dataset under the BFA-based method,the Kullback-Leibler(KL)divergence of the generated images converges to 0.04,0.05,and 0.1 for readout error probabilities of p=0.01,p=0.05,and p=0.1,respectively.Additionally,by evaluating the fidelity of the quantum states representing the images,we observe average fidelity values of 0.97,0.96,and 0.95 for the three readout error probabilities,respectively.These results demonstrate the robustness of the model in mitigating readout errors and provide a highly fault tolerant mechanism for image generation models.

Design of a high-dynamic-range prototype readout system for VLAST calorimeter

In the future, the Very Large Area gamma-ray Space Telescope is expected to observe high-energy electrons and gamma rays in the MeV to TeV range with unprecedented acceptance. As part of the detector suite, a high-energy imaging calorimeter(HEIC) is currently being developed as a homogeneous calorimeter that utilizes long bismuth germanate(BGO) scintillation crystals as both absorbers and detectors. To accurately measure the energy deposition in the BGO bar of HEIC, a highdynamic-range readout method using a silicon photomultiplier(SiPM) and multiphotodiode(PD) with different active areas has been proposed. A prototype readout system that adopts multichannel charge measurement ASICs was also developed to read out the combined system of SiPMs and PDs. Preliminary tests confirmed the feasibility of the readout scheme, which is expected to have a dynamic range close to 10~6.

Advances in nuclear detection and readout techniques

“A Craftsman Must Sharpen His Tools to Do His Job,”said Confucius.Nuclear detection and readout techniques are the foundation of particle physics,nuclear physics,and particle astrophysics to reveal the nature of the universe.Also,they are being increasingly used in other disciplines like nuclear power generation,life sciences,environmental sciences,medical sciences,etc.The article reviews the short history,recent development,and trend of nuclear detection and readout techniques,covering Semiconductor Detector,Gaseous Detector,Scintillation Detector,Cherenkov Detector,Transition Radiation Detector,and Readout Techniques.By explaining the principle and using examples,we hope to help the interested reader underst and this research field and bring exciting information to the community.

Edims: an event-driven internal memory synchronized readout prototype ASIC chip developed for HFRS-TPC

HFRS(HIAF FRagment Separator) will be the radioactive secondary beam separation line on High-Intensity heavy-ion Accelerator Facility(HIAF) in China. Several TPC detectors, with high count rates, are planned for particle identification and beam monitoring at HFRS. This paper presents an event-driven internal memory and synchronous readout(EDIMS)prototype ASIC chip. The aim is to provide HFRS-TPC with high-precision time and charge measurements with high count rates and a large dynamic range. The first prototype EDIMS chip integrated 16 channels and is fabricated using a 0.18-μm CMOS process. Each channel consists of a charge-sensitive amplifier, fast shaper, slow shaper, peak detect-and-hold circuit, discriminator with time-walk compensation, analog memory, and FIFO. The token ring is used for clock-synchronous readout. The chip is taped and tested.

天文应用红外焦平面读出电路研究

成功设计了一款天文应用的640×512短波红外焦平面读出电路。由于红外天文观测具有极低背景辐射、光子通量低的特点,为了实现探测器的高信噪比,需要降低器件的暗电流和电路噪声。电路采用有效的功耗管理策略,在保证电路正常工作的前提下尽可能地降低电路功耗以减小电路辉光对器件暗电流的影响。同时,研究非破坏性读出的数字功能,实现了超长的积分时间和信号的多帧累积,并作为一种斜坡采样的策略有效地降低读出噪声。短波HgCdTe焦平面的测试结果符合理论设计预期,开启电路非破坏性读出功能,设置6 000 s的积分时间,当电路功耗调低至14.04 mW时暗电流为0.9 e-·pixel^(-1)·s^(-1)。读出噪声在两档增益下分别为50 e-(10 fF)和27 e-(5 fF),非线性度低于0.1%。

FPGA Optimized Accelerator of DCNN with Fast Data Readout and Multiplier Sharing Strategy

With the continuous development of deep learning,Deep Convolutional Neural Network(DCNN)has attracted wide attention in the industry due to its high accuracy in image classification.Compared with other DCNN hard-ware deployment platforms,Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA)has the advantages of being programmable,low power consumption,parallelism,and low cost.However,the enormous amount of calculation of DCNN and the limited logic capacity of FPGA restrict the energy efficiency of the DCNN accelerator.The traditional sequential sliding window method can improve the throughput of the DCNN accelerator by data multiplexing,but this method’s data multiplexing rate is low because it repeatedly reads the data between rows.This paper proposes a fast data readout strategy via the circular sliding window data reading method,it can improve the multiplexing rate of data between rows by optimizing the memory access order of input data.In addition,the multiplication bit width of the DCNN accelerator is much smaller than that of the Digital Signal Processing(DSP)on the FPGA,which means that there will be a waste of resources if a multiplication uses a single DSP.A multiplier sharing strategy is proposed,the multiplier of the accelerator is customized so that a single DSP block can complete multiple groups of 4,6,and 8-bit signed multiplication in parallel.Finally,based on two strategies of appeal,an FPGA optimized accelerator is proposed.The accelerator is customized by Verilog language and deployed on Xilinx VCU118.When the accelerator recognizes the CIRFAR-10 dataset,its energy efficiency is 39.98 GOPS/W,which provides 1.73×speedup energy efficiency over previous DCNN FPGA accelerators.When the accelerator recognizes the IMAGENET dataset,its energy efficiency is 41.12 GOPS/W,which shows 1.28×−3.14×energy efficiency compared with others.

高速数字化三维集成式CCD-CMOS图像传感器

为了解决CCD与CMOS工艺兼容性低、互连集成制作难度大,以及芯片间接口匹配和高性能兼备等问题,对CCD器件拓扑结构与像元、CMOS读出电路、三维异质互连集成及高密度引脚封装等技术进行研究,提出了一种1024×256阵列规模的集成式CCD-CMOS图像传感器。该器件实现了CCD信号的高精度数字化处理、高速输出及多芯粒的技术融合,填补了国内CCDCMOS三维集成技术空白。测试结果表明:集成CCD-CMOS器件的光响应和成像功能正常,双边成像效果良好,图像无黑条和坏列,互连连通率(99.9%)满足三维集成要求,实现了集成式探测器件的大满阱高灵敏度成像(满阱电子数达165.28ke^(-)、峰值量子效率达86.1%)、高精度数字化(12bit)和高速输出(行频率达100.85kHz),满足集成化、数字化、小型化的多光谱探测成像系统要求。

基于磁性传感器的低失调温度补偿接口电路设计

面向磁性传感器在物联网(IoT)技术中的广泛应用,该文基于180 nm CMOS工艺设计了一种具有低失调电压,低温度漂移特性的霍尔传感器接口电路。针对霍尔传感器灵敏度的温度漂移特性,该文设计了一种感温电路并与查表法相结合,调节可编程增益放大器(PGA)的增益有效地降低了霍尔传感器的温度系数(TC)。在此基础上,通过在信号主通路中使用相关双采样(CDS)技术,极大程度上消除了霍尔传感器的失调电压。仿真结果表明,在–40°C~125°C温度范围内,霍尔传感器的TC从966.4 ppm/°C减小到了58.1 ppm/°C。信号主通路的流片结果表明,霍尔传感器的失调电压从25 mV左右减小到了4 mV左右,霍尔传感器的非线性误差为0.50%。芯片的总面积为0.69 mm^(2)。

基于运算放大器的超导纳米线单光子探测器低温直流耦合读出电路

超导纳米线单光子探测器(SNSPD)具有高计数率、高探测效率和低暗计数等优点,在光量子通信、光量子计算、激光测距与成像等领域发挥着重要作用.SNSPD的最大计数率(探测速度)会受前级读出电路的影响,为了提升最大计数率,通常需要使用一个宽带宽的低温直流耦合读出电路.本文报道了基于商用高速运算放大芯片OPA855搭建的SNSPD低温直流耦合放大读出电路,系统表征了该电路从室温300 K到低温4.2 K下的性能参数.通过提升OPA855的工作电压,解决了电路在低温下带宽损失的问题.进一步,将OPA855放大电路安装在40 K温区,使用其实现了SNSPD探测性能的实验评估.相对于常规室温交流耦合电路,SNSPD的最大计数率约提升了1.3倍.本研究可为OPA855芯片在高速SNSPD等低温领域提供相关参考信息.

面向行星表面元素测量的小型化伽马谱仪原理样机设计

对行星表面物质受宇宙射线激发或天然衰变而产生的伽马射线进行探测,是一种测量行星表面主要元素成分及其空间分布的可靠技术手段,已被多个行星探测任务采用。提出了将CZT探测器与SiPM读出闪烁晶体相结合的行星元素伽马谱仪方案,该方案兼具低能段的高能量分辨率和高能段的高探测效率,同时可以减小来自非探测方向伽马背景的影响,且具有较小的体积、重量和功耗。为进行初步的技术路线验证,设计了一个将CZT阵列(单个灵敏尺寸1 cm×1 cm×0.5 cm)与BGO探测器(晶体的主体尺寸8.4 cm×8.4 cm×4 cm)相结合的小型化伽马谱仪原理样机,并开展了物理模拟。完成了前端探测器模块、数据处理模块和FPGA控制逻辑的设计实现,以及原理样机的组装。使用放射源、上海光源激光伽马光束线和中子激发伽马对谱仪进行了测试,CZT探测器对^(137)Cs@662 keV伽马射线的能量分辨率(FWHM)为2.1%,可以较好地分辨低能伽马射线,BGO晶体能够较好地探测和分辨高能伽马射线。该方案为未来小型化行星伽马谱仪的工程设计提供了参考。

基于自研ASIC芯片HEPS中硅微条探测器读出电子学原型系统设计与测试

时间分辨X射线粉末衍射技术是探测物质晶体结构及其演变的重要手段。单光子计数型硅微条探测器因其灵敏度高和死时间低,在高能同步辐射光源(HEPS)的X射线粉末衍射实验中发挥着重要作用。研制适用于单光子计数型一维硅微条探测器的专用ASIC读出芯片(SSDROC)及其读出电子学系统,并采用一种新标定方法解决了SSDROC各通道对同一输入输出响应不一致的问题,该方法可显著提高各通道数据一致性并减小衍射实验数据的统计误差。探测器完成各项性能测试,结果表明整体系统线性优秀、能量分辨能力强、噪声低以及计数率高,为将来大覆盖角度一维硅微条探测器系统研制奠定坚实基础。

一种多谱段TDI线列制冷红外探测器

研制出一种多谱段时间延迟积分(Time Delay Integration,TDI)线列制冷红外探测器。探测器阵列规模达到1024×4×6,像元尺寸为20μm×20μm。读出电路具有分谱段将转换成电信号的模拟信号串行输出、边积分边读出(Integrate While Reading,IWR)、TDI以及盲元/闪元剔除功能。探测器芯片采用碲镉汞外延材料制造光伏二极管阵列,封装采用高可靠性的全金属真空杜瓦,制冷采用小型分置式斯特林制冷机。整机具备体型小、功耗低、响应波段宽、集成度高、启动时间短等优点。测试结果表明,器件各谱段的盲元率小于1%,各谱段的噪声等效温差(Noise Equivalent Temperature Difference,NETD)小于30 mK,各谱段的动态范围大于70 dB,各谱段的响应率非均匀性小于5%,各谱段的非线性度小于2%,器件行频大于20 kHz。

高光谱应用的带可调复位时间CDS的低噪声红外焦平面读出电路

低辐射量的高光谱应用对红外焦平面读出电路(ROIC)提出了低噪声的设计要求。相关双采样(CDS)是常用的减少噪声的结构。本文通过调节钳位和采样保持之间的时间间隔来改进CDS,可灵活消除低频噪声。采用180 nm CMOS工艺设计和制造了640×512规模、15μm像元中心距的读出电路。输入级集成了低噪声CTIA与本文提出的可调复位时间CDS(AICDS),所设计的时序产生器使CDS复位时间可以延长0~270个时钟周期。通过延长复位时间减少这个时间间隔,噪声电子数可以由39 e^(-)减少到18.3 e^(-)。SPECTRE仿真结果和实验测试结果证实了提出的AICDS结构可以提升高光谱应用读出电路的噪声性能,因此可以广泛应用。

消除CDS折叠效应的增益自适应红外焦平面读出电路

高动态范围是红外焦平面探测技术的先进发展方向之一。高集成度像元读出电路的动态范围受到小电荷存储容量和噪声的限制。所设计的增益自适应像元读出电路,小信号下为电容反馈跨阻放大器(CTIA),大信号下自动转换为变阻抗电阻反馈跨阻放大器(RTIA),实现小信号大增益、大信号小增益的自动切换,将集成3.86 fF积分电容的CTIA电荷容量拓展到1.63 Me^(–)。在15μm像元中心距的像元内集成相关双采样(CDS)结构,大幅减小噪声。对CDS大信号注入产生的折叠效应进行理论分析,并设计抗折叠结构。采用180 nm 3.3V CMOS工艺,完成640×512规模的读出电路的设计、仿真、流片、测试。测试结果显示,该电路可消除CDS折叠效应,噪声电子数17 e^(–),动态范围拓展到99.66 dB。

FPGA-based position reconstruction method for neutron beam flux spatial distribution measurement in BNCT

A new measurement method for the spatial distribution of neutron beam flux in boron neutron capture therapy(BNCT)is being developed based on the two-dimensional Micromegas detector.To address the issue of long processing times in traditional offline position reconstruction methods,this paper proposes a field programmable gate array based online position reconstruction method utilizing the micro-time projection chamber principle.This method encapsulates key technical aspects:a self-adaptive serial link technique built upon the dynamical adjustment of the delay chain length,fast sorting,a coordinate-matching technique based on the mapping between signal timestamps and random access memory(RAM)addresses,and a precise start point-merging technique utilizing a circular combined RAM.The performance test of the selfadaptive serial link shows that the bit error rate of the link is better than 10-12 at a confidence level of 99%,ensuring reliable data transmission.The experiment utilizing the readout electronics and Micromegas detector shows a spatial resolution of approximately 1.4 mm,surpassing the current method’s resolution level of 5 mm.The beam experiment confirms that the readout electronics system can obtain the flux spatial distribution of neutron beams online,thus validating the feasibility of the position reconstruction method.The online position reconstruction method avoids traditional methods,such as bubble sorting and traversal searching,simplifies the design of the logic firmware,and reduces the time complexity from O(n2)to O(n).This study contributes to the advancement in measuring neutron beam flux for BNCT.

一种高帧频大动态范围像素级数字化读出电路设计

与短波和中波器件相比,长波红外探测器具有较大的光电流和暗电流,故需要强大的电荷存储能力。而使用传统的模拟像元读出电路技术会严重受限于电荷存储能力,使得长波探测器的动态范围和信噪比难以提升,从而制约着长波红外成像系统的发展和应用。提出一种像素级数字读出电路技术,通过数字积分克服了传统模拟积分方案电荷存储能力受限的缺陷,实现了探测器的数字信号输出,能够极大提高探测器的动态范围、抗干扰能力和帧频。该技术是提升长波探测器性能的有效途径。基于该技术设计了一款像元间距为30 m的320×256数字读出电路,其输出以低压差分信号(Low Voltage Differential Signal,LVDS)方式传输。仿真结果显示,该电路的最高帧频可达1000 Hz,动态范围大于95 dB。

一种具有积分电容复用功能的红外读出电路设计

为提高长波红外探测器的电荷处理能力,提出了一种积分电容复用技术。该技术将读出电路阵列分为奇偶行两个部分,使奇偶行像素分开进行积分读出。当所有的奇行像素积分时,所有的偶行像素均不进行积分。奇行像素复用偶行像素的积分电容,奇行像素积分结束后按行列顺序依次读出。同样地,当所有偶行像素积分时,奇行像素不进行积分,偶行像素复用奇行像素的电容,积分完成后偶行像素按顺序读出。相比于使用叠层电容来提高电荷处理能力的方法,积分电容复用技术更加有效且不受工艺限制。仿真结果表明,积分电容复用技术可将像素的等效积分电容提升至原来的2倍,使读出电路的电荷处理能力从20 Me^(-)提升至40 Me^(-)。