Description
Novel Silicon Detectors
Pixel sensors are a key element in modern experimental applications, spanning from silicon vertex trackers in high energy physics experiments to high resolution imagers at advanced X-ray sources. The demanding specifications of these experiments stimulate the development of novel solutions, exploiting the most recent advances in sensor technologies, microelectronics, and interconnection techniques. These lectures will review the different paths that are being pursued for the next generation of pixel detector systems. Special focus will be given to monolithic sensor technologies and to 3D vertical integration, which open new perspectives for pixel applications requiring low material budget, high resolution, high data rate capabilities and the generation of a track trigger with low latency.
Curriculum Vitae Prof. Valerio Re
Valerio Re received his Laurea degree in Physics (summa cum laude) from
the University of Milano in 1985, and earned a Ph.D. in Electronic
Engineering from the University of Pavia in 1990. In 1986 he joined the
Electronic Instrumentation group at the Department of Electronics of the
University of Pavia as an assistant professor. During the period
1998-2006 he was an associate professor of Electronic Instrumentation at
the University of Bergamo. Since 2006 he is a professor of Electronics at
the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Bergamo.
His current research interests are in the fields of the design of analog
devices and front-end circuits for radiation detectors, of the study of
noise and radiation effects in electronic devices and of the development
of electronic instrumentation for the characterization of solid-state
devices. He is presently focusing on nanoscale CMOS technologies for the
design of integrated circuits for the processing of signals delivered by
semiconductor sensors. Valerio Re is also developing monolithic active
pixel sensors in CMOS technologies in the 100-nm regime. Valerio Re has
been the Principal Investigator of several research programs funded by
the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). Presently, he is the
P.I. of a three-year INFN program on pixel sensors in 3D microelectronic
technologies. He is a member of the Facilitation Group on vertically
integrated pixel sensors, which was established by the management of
CERN, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and KEK (Japan). Valerio Re
is author or coauthor of more than 200 papers on international scientific
journals and conference proceedings.
