Wireless Preamplifier for the Specimen Current Mode Detector in a SEM

Using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) in the back-scattered electron (BSE) mode the composition of multi-element specimens may be determined based on the strong dependence of emission coefficient η on the average atomic number of elements Z. The output video signal of the usual BSE detectors is produced from their sensors, and the larger proportion of high-energy electrons with modified spectrum is added. Since η = is/ip (is and ip currents of specimen and probe), better accuracy must be achieved by direct measurements those currents on the specimen surface. Here, an experimental model of a current detector for a presented specimen is described. The cage is mounted on the carousel of the moving specimen stage. The input of the preamplifier is connected to the specimen holder in the form of a disk, the diameter of which is 12 mm. When the probe along its surface scanned, the input potential begins to pulsate with a negative polarity. The output of this preamplifier is connected to a small light-emitting diode, which creates intensity-modulated radiation in the chamber. Thus created the light video signal will be picked up by the photomultiplier of the E-T detector. The modes of true SE and BSE are set by applying tens bias volts of various polarities to the specimens or the cage itself.

Simulation of a Monolithic Integrated CMOS Preamplifier for Neural Recordings

A monolithic integrated CMOS preamplifier is presented for neural recording applications. Two AC-coupied capacitors are used to eliminate the large and random DC offsets existing in the electrode-electrolyte interface. Diode-connected nMOS transistors with a negative voltage between the gate and source are candidates for the large resistors necessary for the preamplifier. A novel analysis is given to determine the noise power spectral density. Simulation results show that the two-stage CMOS preamplifier in a closed-loop capacitive feedback configuration provides an AC in-band gain of 38.8dB,a DC gain of 0,and an input-referred noise of 277nVmax, integrated from 0. 1Hz to 1kHz. The preamplifier can eliminate the DC offset voltage and has low input-referred noise by novel circuit configuration and theoretical analysis.

A 10Gb/s GaAs PHEMT High Gain Preamplifier for Optical Receivers

A high gain cascade connected preamplifier for optical receivers is developed with 0.5μm GaAs PHEMT technology from the Nanjing Electronic Devices Institute. To begin with, the transimpedance amplifier has a -3dB bandwidth of 10GHz, with a small signal gain of around 9dB. The post-stage distributed amplifier （DA） has a -3dB bandwidth of close to 20GHz,with a small signal gain of around 12dB. As a whole,the cascade preamplifier has a measured small signal gain of 21.3dB and a transimpedance of 55.3dBΩ in a 50Ω system. With a higher signal-to-noise ratio than that of the TIA and a markedly improved waveform distortion compared with that of the DA, the measured output eye diagram for 10Gb/s NRZ pseudorandom binary sequence is clear and symmetric.

10Gb/s GaAs PHEMT Current Mode Transimpedance Preamplifier for Optical Receiver

A single power supply common-gate （CG） current mode transimpedance preamplifier （TIA） is developed with a 0.5μm GaAs PHEMT process. The amplifier has a measured - 3dB bandwidth of 7. 5GHz and a transimpedance gain of 45dBΩ. Both the input and output voltage standing wave ratios （VSWR） are less than 2 within the bandwidth. The equivalent input noise current spectral density varies from 14.3 to 22pA/√Hz, with an average value of 17. 2pA/√Hz. Having a timing jitter of 14ps and eye amplitude of about 138mV,the measured output eye diagram for 10Gb/s NRZ pseudorandom binary sequence （PRBS） is clear and satisfactory.

Design of 10 Gbit/s burst-mode transimpedance preamplifier for PON systems

A 10 Gbit/s burst-mode preamplifier is designed for passive optical networks （PONs）. To achieve a high dynamic range and fast response, the circuit is DC coupled, and a feed-back type peak detector is designed to perform auto-gaincontrol and threshold extraction. Regulated cascade （RGC） architecture is exploited as the input stage to reduce the input impedance of the circuit and isolate the large parasitic capacitance including the photodiode capacitance from the determination pole, thus increasing the bandwidth. This preamplifier is implemented using the low-cost 0. 13 ixm CMOS technology. The die area is 425 μm × 475 μm and the total power dissipation is 23.4 mW. The test results indicate that the preamplifier can work at a speed from 1.25 to 10.312 5 Gbit/s, providing a high transimpedance gain of 64.0 dBΩ and a low gain of 54. 6 dBl2 with a dynamic input range of over 22.9 dB. The equivalent input noise current is 23. 4 pA/ Hz1/2. The proposed burst amplifier satisfies related specifications defined in 10G-EPON and XG-PON standards.

Compact 16-channel integrated charge-sensitive preamplifier module for silicon strip detectors

In this study,a compact 16-channel integrated charge-sensitive preamplifier named the smart preamplifier(SPA)was developed to support the large-scale detector array used in modern nuclear physics experiments.Two types of SPA,namely SPA02 and SPA03(with external field effect transistor),have been manufactured to match silicon detectors with small and large capacitances,respectively.The characteristics of the SPA include fast response of typically less than 6 ns for pulse rising time and low equivalent noise of 1.5 keV at zero input capacitance.The energy sensitivity and pulse decay time can be easily adjusted by changing the feedback capacitance Cfand resistance Rfin various applications.A good energy resolution of 24.4 keV for 5.803-MeV alpha particles from 244 Cm was achieved using a small-sized Si-PIN detector;for the silicon strip detectors in the test with the alpha source,a typical energy resolution of 0.6–0.8%was achieved.The integrated SPA has been employed in several experiments of silicon strip detectors with hundreds of channels,and a good performance has been realized.

Design of a Preamplifier Card for the Photomultiplier Tubes of a Gamma Camera

The service provided by the GC(Gamma Cameras)in the Nuclear Medicine departments fails because of their breakdown,generally due to the associated electronics and not to the physical detection components.For this reason,it was decided to develop an electronic system that allows the recovery and optimization of disused GC,starting with the design of the preamplifier for a PMT(photomultiplier tube).The circuit was designed and simulated and the list of components necessary for the construction of the preamplifier was generated,as well as the printed circuit board was designed for its assembly.By simulating the preamplifier this worked in linear mode.This determines that the amplitude of the output signal is proportional to the amount of charge delivered by the detector.This card allows an automatic adjustment of the signals of the PMT as do the modern GC.

Design and simulation of charge sensitive preamplifier with CMOS FET implemented as feedback capacitor C_(fp)

In this paper,to design a new preamplifier for optimum performances with charged-particle or heavy-ion detectors,the CMOS FET is implemented as a feedback capacitor Cfp,so that the entire system should be built only with MOSFET. This work is a revolution design because to realize an ASIC for a preamplifier circuit,the capacitor will also be included. We succeed after a simulation to maintain a rise time less than 3 ns,the output resistance less than 94 ? and the linearity almost good.

A low noise charge sensitive preamplifier with switch control feedback resistance

In this paper, the design and analysis of a new low noise charge sensitive preamplifier for silicon strip, Si(Li), CdZnTe and CsI detectors etc. with switch control feedback resistance were described, the entire system to be built using the CMOS transistors. The circuit configuration of the CSP proposed in this paper can be adopted to develop CMOS-based Application Specific Integrated Circuit further for Front End Electronics of read-out system of nuclear physics, particle physics and astrophysics research, etc. This work is an implemented design that we succeed after a simulation to obtain a rise time less than 3ns, the output resistance less than 94? and the linearity almost good.

High-Stability High-Energy Picosecond Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier as a Preamplifier in Nd：Glass Petawatt System for Contrast Enhancement

We demonstrate a novel picosecond optical parametric preamplification to generate high-stability, high-energy and high-contrast seed pulses. The 5ps seed pulse is amplified from 60pJ to 300μJ with an 8.6ps/ 3mJ pump laser in a signal stage of short pulse non-collinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification. The total gain is more than 106 and the rms energy stability is under 1.35%. The contrast ratio is higher than 10s within a scale of 20ps before the main pulse. Consequently, the improvement factor of the signal contrast is approximately equal to the gain 106 outside the pump window.

High Performance Bilinear Differential Preamplifier for BESⅢ Time-of-Flight System

A time-of-flight (TOF) detector has been used in the BESIII experiment to provide charged particle identification. In this paper, we present a novel high performance differential amplifier, which has been designed for amplifying the signals from the detectors. The preamplifier can amplify differential signals, which can help to eliminate the common mode pickup, and increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Bilinear gain is one of the features of this preamplifier, which greatly increases the dynamic range and avoids the dead time of the preamplifier. In order to describe the bilinear gain, a 4-parameter function is developed. And this 4-parameter function can also be used in the calibration of the time walk caused by the amplitude due to the bilinear gain. The preamplifier has a gain about 10V/V with a small signal and about 1.0V/V with a large signal. The rise time of the preamp is less than 2 ns.

Application of CMOS charge-sensitive preamplifier in triple-GEM detector

Among the various micro-pattern gas detectors (MPGD) that are available, the gas electron multiplier (GEM) detector is an attractive gas detector that has been used in particle physics experiments. However, the GEM detector usually needs thousands of preamplifier units for its large number of micro-pattern readout strips or pads, which leads to considerable difficulties and complexities for front end electronics (FEE). Nowadays, by making use of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)-based application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), it is fea- sible to integrate hundreds of preamplifier units and other signal process circuits in a small-sized chip, which can be bound to the readout strips or pads of a micro-pattern particle detector (MPPD). Therefore, CMOS ASIC may provide an ideal solution to the readout problem of MPPD. In this article, a triple GEM detector is constructed and one of its readout strips is connected to a CMOS charge-sensitive preamplifier chip. The chip was exposed to an 55Fe source of 5.9 keV X-ray, and the amplitude spectrum of the chip was tested, and it was found that the energy resolution was approximately 27%, which indicates that the chip can be used in triple GEM detectors.

Fault diagnosis based on high-gain observer with an update law for a class of nonlinear systems

In this paper,by using the well-known high-gain observer design,an update law for the gain and an adaptive estimation of parameters,a new method of fault diagnosis for a class of nonlinear systems is presented.Without resort to any transformation for the parameters,the estimation errors of the states and the parameters are guaranteed to be globally exponentially convergent by a persistent excitation condition.Compared to the existing results,it can be applied to nonlinear systems with nonlinear terms admitting an incremental rate depending on the measured output.A case study further verifies the validity of the proposed research.

High-Gain Approach Based Full-Order Observers for Linear Systems with Unknown Inputs

In this paper, a full-order observer which can be fully decoupled from the unknown inputs as the conventional full-order observer does is designed by using auxiliary outputs, but the requirement of the matching condition is removed. The procedure of calculating the parameter matrices of the full-order observer is also presented. Compared with the existing auxiliary outputs based sliding-mode observers, the designed observer has a simpler design procedure, which is systematic and does not involve solving linear matrix inequalities. The simulation results show that the proposed method is effective.

High-Gain Array Antenna Based on Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Line

In this paper a metamaterial-inspired antenna with high gain and good directivity is designed. Based on the concept of composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL), the proposed antenna is realized based on three leakage wave unit cell and a left handed circular ring slot incorporated on the surface. The maximum achievable gain at the resonant frequency of 5.6GHz is 6.933 dBi, and the return loss at 5.6 GHz can be –20 db. This proposed design has a simple structure and a compact dimension of 35 mm*40 mm*1 mm, which is suitable for particular wireless communication application such as WiFi and WLAN.

High-Gain N-Face AlGaN Solar-Blind Avalanche Photodiodes Using a Heterostructure as Separate Absorption and Multiplication Regions

It is well known that -nitride semiconductors can generate the magnitude of MV/cm polarization electric field which is comparable with their ionization electric fields. To take full advantage of the polarization electric field, we design an N-face AlGaN solar-blind avalanche photodiode (APD) with an Al0.45Ga0.55N/Al0.3Ga0.7N heterostructure as separate absorption and multiplication (SAM) regions. The simulation results show that the N-face APDs are more beneficial to improving the avalanche gain and reducing the avalanche breakdown voltage compared with the Ga-face APDs due to the effect of the polarization electric field. Furthermore, the Al0.45Ga0.55N/Al0.3Ga0.7N heterostructure SAM regions used in APDs instead of homogeneous Al0.45Ga0.55N SAM structure can increase significantly avalanche gain because of the increased hole ionization coefficient by using the relatively low Al-content AlGaN in the multiplication region. Meanwhile, a quarter-wave AlGaN/AlN distributed Bragg reflector structure at the bottom of the device is designed to remain a solar-blind characteristic of the heterostructure SAM-APDs.

无线激光传输系统收发电路的设计与实现

针对航天发动机、涡轮机等旋转部件的温度测量系统中的信号传输问题,以850 nm波长的红外光为载体,设计了基于FPGA的无线激光通信的数据传输系统。该系统由转子端的光发射模块、定子端的光接收模块、地面可视化设备3部分组成。此外,在前置放大电路中引入一个反馈电容,系统的开环增益曲线会增加一个极点做补偿以提升系统的稳定,并进行了仿真验证。在此基础之上,搭建实验系统对电路性能进行测试。通过仿真及实验验证,结果表明:设计的方案可以实现传输速率为40 Mbit/s的稳定传输,为旋转环境的动态监测技术中的无线数据传输提供了一种可行性方案。

粒子辐射探测器专用电荷灵敏前置放大器扩量程技术研究

专用集成前置放大器RENA3因噪声低而广泛用做粒子辐射探测器的前置放大器,但RENA3的最大输入电荷量限制了其量程。针对这一问题,提出一种通过在RENA3的输入端并联电容的方法来扩展量程,并对该扩量程技术方案进行理论分析、PSpice仿真分析和实验验证。实验结果与理论分析和数值模拟结果相吻合,由此验证了所提出方法的可行性。该方法可适用于其他专用集成前置放大器的量程扩展。

低噪声水声信号前置放大器设计

水下信息的发送与接收主要通过声信号的传播,水听器作为常用的水声信号接收装置,需要前置放大器来提高所获取信号的质量。文中选用AD8421仪表放大器芯片与OP2177精密运算放大器芯片设计了一种低噪声水声信号前置放大器,该电路增益为26 dB,工作带宽为100 Hz~20 kHz,输出信号为差分形式,同时具有小体积、低功耗的特点。通过连接某型压电水听器,测试了电路工作性能以及对水听器信号的调理效果。实测结果表明,该前置放大器能满足设计技术指标要求,在实际工作中取得了良好的效果。

用于扫描隧道显微镜的低噪声前置电流放大器

前置电流放大器是扫描隧道显微镜的重要部件之一,其性能对于扫描隧道显微镜系统的基本操作及新功能开发至关重要.本文详细分析了影响前置电流放大器性能的因素,通过筛选噪声极低的运放芯片和电路结构优化,设计了一款针对扫描隧道显微镜系统的前置电流放大器.该放大器最灵敏档位(1 GΩ)的噪声低至4 fA/(Hz)1/2,带宽为2.3 kHz,具有10 MΩ,100 MΩ和1 GΩ三个测量量程并且可以通过控制信号实现自动切换,测量范围覆盖pA—μA量级的隧穿电流.利用该前置电流放大器展示了扫描隧道显微镜系统的主要功能,包括表面形貌表征、扫描隧道谱测量以及原子搬运,并探索了隧穿电流中散粒噪声的测量.通过散粒噪声随隧穿电流的变化关系,得到隧穿结中散粒噪声的法诺因子约等于1,验证了简单金属隧穿结中电子隧穿满足泊松过程,为表面电子关联体系的高精度表征提供了基础.