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Cool sensors: new silicon detectors have their fridges built in

How 3D printing could get to the heart of the ILC detectors

| 12 May 2016

Riding the wave of progress in semi-conductor industry, pixel vertex detectors have improved their performance dramatically over the last decades. It is now possible to build ultra-thin devices with a spatial resolution of several microns, while maintaining a read-out speed and power- consumption that is adequate for lepton collider experiments such as the ILC. Several […]

InGrids on the rise

| 16 April 2015

The InGrid chip is an ingenious little thing. It is essentially a Timepix chip equipped with 256×256 pixels. On top of these sits a grid that features a hole over each pixel. Within the 50-µm gap, a strong electric field is generated. This means that electrons flying through one of those holes feel this field and are […]