Annoucement!
The Special Issue “Semiconductor Radiation Detectors: Sensors, Readout Electronics and Applications”, edited by Dr. Filippo Mele is currently open for submissions on MDPI Sensors! Check out the details and submission procedure on the Special Issue page here!
Selected SDIC-Lab Publications List
2024
L. Rota, F. Mele, A. Habib, H. Kim, P. King, B. Markovic, A.P. Perez, A. Dragone “The SparkPix-S ASIC for the sparsified readout of 1 MHz frame-rate X-ray cameras at LCLS-II: pixel design and simulation results” in Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 19 no. 01, C01010, Jan. 2024 doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/19/01/C01010
2023
G. Bertuccio and F. Mele “Electronic Noise in Semiconductor-based Radiation Detection Systems: a comprehensive analysis with a unified approach” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 70 no. 10, pp. 2310-2321, Aug. 2023 doi: 10.1109/TNS.2023.3310357
F. Mele “High Energy Resolution X and Gamma Ray Imaging Spectroscopy with the ORION Multichip Readout Electronics” in X-ray Photon Processing Detectors: Space, Industrial, and Medical application, Springer International Publishing, pp. 95-109, Jun. 2023 doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-35241-6_5
F. Mele, J. Quercia, L. Abbene, G. Benassi, M. Bettelli, A. Buttacavoli, F. Principato, A. Zappettini and G. Bertuccio “Advances in High-Energy-Resolution CdZnTe Linear Array Pixel Detectors with Fast and Low Noise Readout Electronics” in MDPI Sensors, vol. 23 no.4, pp. 2167, Feb. 2023 doi: 10.3390/s23042167
J. Quercia, F. Mele, D. Macera, B. Arcaini, B. Garavelli and G. Bertuccio, “Experimental characterization of a fast X-ray spectroscopic imager module using the ALTAIR P3 ASIC for real-time contaminants detection” in Journal of Instrumentation, vol. 18 no. 01, pp. C01064, Jan. 2023, doi: 10.1088/1748-0221/18/01/C01064
2022
M. Gandola, M. Grassi, F. Mele, I. Dedolli, P. Malcovati and G. Bertuccio, “The sparse readout RIGEL Application Specific Integrated Circuit for Pixel Silicon Drift Detectors in soft X-ray imaging space applications” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 1040, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2022.167249
M. Grassi, A. Gemelli, P. Malcovati, F. Mele, I. Dedolli, M. Gandola, G. Bertuccio, E. Marchesini, E. Virgilli, R. Campana, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti and L. Amati, “Experimental Characterization of the ORION ASIC: The Read-Out Circuit for X-γ-Ray Detection of the THESEUS Mission Spectrometer” in 2022 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 2022, doi: 10.1109/I2MTC48687.2022.9806486
F. Ceraudo, I. Dedolli, D. Cirrincione, E. Del Monte, F. Mele, F. Ambrosino, P. Bellutti, G. Bertuccio, G. Borghi, R. Campana, M. Caselle, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Ficorella, M. Fiorini, F. Fuschino, M. Gandola, M. Grassi, C. Labanti, P. Loffredo, P. Malcovati, A. Picciotto, A. Rachevski, I. Rashevskaya, A. Tobia, A. Vacchi, A. Volpe, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, N. Zorzi, “Radiation-induced effects on the RIGEL ASIC” in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 1037, Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.nima.2022.166903
F. Mele, I. Dedolli and G. Bertuccio “A CMOS Peak Stretcher/Peak Detector for Wide Dynamic Range Spectroscopy Applications With 32-μW Power Consumption.” in IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters, vol. 5, pp. 74-77, doi: 10.1109/LSSC.2022.3162496
F. Mele, “Application Specific Integrated Circuits for High Resolution X and Gamma Ray Semiconductor Detectors.” in Special Topics in Information Technology. Springer, Cham, Jan. 2022, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85918-3_3
2021
M. Gandola, F. Mele, M. Grassi, P. Malcovati, and G. Bertuccio, “Multi-chip front-end electronics LYRA for X and γ Ray detector for HERMES mission” in Journal of Instrumentation, 16(12), T12013, Dec. 2021, doi: 110.1088/1748-0221/16/12/T12013
F. Mele, I. Dedolli, M. Gandola, M. Grassi, P. Malcovati, L. Amati, P. Bellutti, G. Borghi, R. Campana, E. Demenev, F. Ficorella, M. Fiorini, F. Frontera, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti, E. Marchesini, A. Picciotto, A. Rachevski, I. Rashevskaya, E. Virgilli, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, N. Zorzi, A. Vacchi and Giuseppe Bertuccio, “ORION, a Multichip Readout Electronics for Satellite Wide Energy Range X-/γ-Ray Imaging Spectroscopy: Design and Characterization of the Analog Section,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 2801-2809, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2021.3130184
F. Mele, J. Quercia and G. Bertuccio, “Analytical Model of the Discharge Transient in Pulsed-Reset Charge-Sensitive Amplifiers,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 68, no. 7, Jul. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2021.3087420
F. Mele, M. Gandola and G. Bertuccio, “SIRIO: A High-Speed CMOS Charge Sensitive Amplifier for High Energy Resolution X-γ ray Spectroscopy with Semiconductor Detectors,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 68, no. 3, Mar. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2021.3055934
M. Sammartini, M. Gandola, F. Mele, B. Garavelli, D. Macera, P. Pozzi and G. Bertuccio, “X–γ-Ray Spectroscopy With a CdTe Pixel Detector and SIRIO Preamplifier at Deep Submicrosecond Signal-Processing Time,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 70-75, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2020.3037407
2020
F. Mele, M. Gandola, M. Grassi, C. Labanti, P. Malcovati and G. Bertuccio, “The ORION Chipset for the X-Gamma Imaging Spectrometer Onboard of the THESEUS Space Mission,” 2020 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2020, pp. 1-3, doi: 10.1109/NSS/MIC42677.2020.9508085
D. Macera, M. Gandola, M. Sammartini and G. Bertuccio, “ALTAIR: A Low-Noise, Low-Power, High-Speed and Wide Dynamic Range ASIC for X- and γ-Ray Spectroscopy With CdTe/CdZnTe Pixel Detectors,” in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 182-188, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2020.3045637
M. Sammartini, M. Gandola, F. Mele, G. Bertuccio, F. Ambrosino, P. Bellutti, G. Borghi, R. Campana, M. Caselle, D. Cirrincione, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Ficorella, M. Fiorini, F. Fuschino, M. Grassi, C. Labanti, P. Malcovati, A. Picciotto, A. Rachevski, I. Rashevskaya, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, N. Zorzi, A. Vacchi Pixel Drift Detector (PixDD) – SIRIO: an X-ray spectroscopic system with high energy resolution at room temperature Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Vol. 953, 11 February 2020, 163114
Grassi, M.; Gandola, M.; Mele, F.; Bertuccio, G.; Malcovati, P.; Fuschino, F.; Campana, R.; Labanti, X-/γ-Ray Detection Instrument for the HERMES Nano-Satellites Based on SDDs Read-Out by the LYRA Mixed-Signal ASIC Chipset DOI:10.1109/I2MTC43012.2020.9129520. pp.1-6. In 2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC)-ISBN:978-1-7281-4460-3
Fuschino, F.; Campana, R.; Labanti, C.; Evangelista, Y.; Fiore, F.; Gandola, M.Grassi, M.; Mele, An innovative architecture for a wide band transient monitor on board the HERMES nano-satellite constellation. Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114441S; DOI: 10.1117/12.2561037
F. Fuschino, R. Campana, C. Labanti, L. Amati, E. Virgilli, L. Terenzi, P. Bellutti, G. Bertuccio, G. Borghi, F. Ficorella, M. Gandola, M. Grassi, G. La Rosa, P. Lorenzi, P. Malcovati, F. Mele, P. Orleański, A. Picciotto, A. Rachevski, I. Rashevskaya, A. Santangelo, P. Sarra, G. Sottile, C. Tenzer, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, Nicola Zorzi, Paul Hedderman, M. Winkler, Alessandro Gemelli, Ifran Kuvvetli, Søren Møller Pedersen, Denis Tcherniak, Lucas Christoffer Bune Jensen, “The XGIS instrument on-board THESEUS: the detection plane and on-board electronics,” Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 114448R (13 December 2020); DOI: 10.1117/12.2561002
2019
D.Cirrincione, M.Ahangarianabhari, F.Ambrosino, I.Bajnati, P.Bellutti, G.Bertuccio, G.Borghi, J.Bufon, G.Cautero, F.Ceraudo, Y.Evangelista, S.Fabiani, M.Feroci, F.Ficorella, M.Gandola, F.Mele, G.Orzan, A.Picciotto, M.Sammartini, A.Rachevski, I.Rashevskaya, S.Schillani, G.Zampa, N.Zampa, N.Zorzi, A.Vacchi, High precision mapping of single-pixel Silicon Drift Detector for applications in astrophysics and advanced light source Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Volume 936, 21 August 2019, Pages 239-241
F. Fuschino, R. Campana, C. Labanti , Y. Evangelista , M. Ferocic,d, L. Burderi, F. Fiore, F. Ambrosino, G. Baldazzi, P. Bellutti, R. Bertacin, G. Bertuccio, G. Borghi, D. Cirrincione, D. Cauz, F. Ficorella, M. Fiorini, M. Gandola, M. Grassi, G. La Rosa, M. Lavagna, P. Lunghi, P. Malcovati, B. Negri, G. Pauletta, R. Piazzolla, A. Picciotto, S. Pirrotta, G. Puehlhofer, A. Rachevski, I. Rashevskaya, L. Rignanese, M. Salatti, A. Santangelo, S. Silvestrini, G. Sottile, C. Tenzer, A. Vacchi, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, N. Zorzi HERMES: An ultra-wide band X and gamma-ray transient monitor on board a nano-satellite constellation Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics, 14 th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors May 27 – June 2 2018 La Biodola, Isola d’Elba (Italy) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Vol. 936, 2019, Pages 199-203
B. Garavelli ; P. Pozzi ; D. Macera ; L. Zanotti ; A. Mencarelli ; G. Bubba ; P. Bertoni ; M. Sammartini ; M. Bettelli ; G. Bertuccio ; G. Ghiringhelli ; A. Zappettini XSpectra®: an Advanced Real-Time Food Contaminants Detector 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) Year: 2019 | Conference Paper | Publisher: IEEE
Massimo Gandola ; Marco Grassi ; Filippo Mele ; Piero Malcovati ; Giuseppe Bertuccio LYRA: A Multi-Chip ASIC Designed for HERMES X and Gamma Ray Detector 2019 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) Year: 2019 | Conference Paper | Publisher: IEEE
M. Gandola ; M. Grassi ; F. Mele ; G. Bertuccio ; P. Malcovati Mixed-Signal ASICs for X- and γ-Ray Spectroscopy in Space Applications 2019 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) Year: 2019 | Conference Paper | Publisher: IEEE
2018
M.Sammartini, M.Gandola, F.Mele, B.Garavelli, D.Macera, P.Pozzi, G.Bertuccio A CdTe pixel detector–CMOS preamplifier for room temperature high sensitivity and energy resolution X and ray spectroscopic imaging Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Vol. 910, 1 December 2018, Pages 168-173.
Y. Evangelista, F. Ambrosino, M. Feroci, P. Bellutti, G. Bertuccio, G. Borghic, R. Campana, M. Caselle, D. Cirrincione, F. Ficorella, M. Fiorini, F. Fuschino, M. Gandola, M. Grassi, C. Labanti, P. Malcovati, F. Meled, A. Morbidini, A. Picciotto, A. Rachevski, I. Rashevskaya, M. Sammartini, G. Zampa, N. Zampa, N. Zorzi and A. Vacchi Characterization of a novel pixelated Silicon Drift Detector (PixDD) for high-throughput X-ray astrophysics Journal of Instrumentation, Volume 13, September 2018
C. Liu ; A. Castoldi ; G. Bertuccio ; M. Gandola ; M. Sammartini ; F. Mele Performance at Cryogenic Temperatures of an Ultra Low Noise CMOS Front-end for Fano-limited X-ray Spectroscopy 2018 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Proceedings (NSS/MIC)
2017
M. Gandola ; D. Macera ; M. Sammartini ; G. Bertuccio ALTAIR: A Low Noise, Low Power and Wide Dynamic Range ASIC for X and γ Ray Applications with CdTe/CdZnTe Pixel Detectors 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)
M. Sammartini ; M. Gandola ; G. Bertuccio Advanced Theoretical Models for Charge Collection in CdTe Radiation Detectors: a comparison based on experimental data 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC)
Yoav Kimchy; Ronen Lifshitz; Shlomo Lewkowitz; Guiseppe Bertuccio; Nadir Arber; Nathan Gluck; Perry J Pickhardt, M.D. “Radiographic Capsule-based System for non-cathartic Colorectal Cancer Screening” Abdominal Radiology, Springer Journals, Published on line 4 January 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s00261-016-1026-y