This is one of several articles in a special volume devoted to micro-electronics in the field of
High Energy Particle Physics, reviewing readout integrated circuits for hybrid pixel detectors …

In the past few years, the need of measuring accurately the spatial and temporal coordinates
of the particles generated in high-energy physics experiments has spurred a strong R&D in …

A pico-second timing (PIST) front-end electronic chip has been developed using 55 nm
CMOS technology for future electron-positron collider experiments (namely Higgs factories) …

We present the first characterization results of Timespot1, an ASIC designed in CMOS 28 nm
technology, featuring a 32× 32 pixel matrix with a pitch of 35 μm. Timespot1 is the first small …

We present the implementation and verification of an in-pixel automatic threshold calibration
circuit for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer (ETL) in the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade. The …

A low gain avalanche detector (LGAD) represents a type of semiconductor detector with the
advantages of high time precision and spatial granularity, and it has been widely studied …

Low-gain avalanche detector (LGAD) is being researched and designed in ATLAS and CMS
experiments aiming to distinguish collisions that are close in both space and time to meet …

The need for the precise measurement of the time associated with the passage through the
matter of a quantum of radiation is of primary importance in a number of scientific fields and …

we present the design and characterization of the first full chain precision timing prototype
ASIC, named ETL Readout Chip version 1 (ETROC1) for the CMS MTD endcap timing layer …

We present an FPGA-based readout chip emulator board for the CMS Endcap Timing Layer
(ETL) detector upgrade. The emulator board uses an Intel Cyclone 10 GX FPGA to emulate …