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CLIC is looking at silicon capacitors to help with power pulsing
by Barbara Warmbein
If physicists had it their way, detectors of the future would be powered with air.
They want no material and no electronic noise to disturb their measurements. Powering by air isn’t a realistic option, so electrical engineers are tackling the challenge, putting a lot of effort into keeping noise down and material out. One of them is Cristian Fuentes at CERN. His latest project: power pulsing for the CLIC detector.