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An ASIC Design for Photon Pulse Counting Particle Detection

광계수방식 물리입자 검출용 ASIC 설계

  • Received : 2019.09.04
  • Accepted : 2019.09.26
  • Published : 2019.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore an ASIC design for estimating sizes and concentrations of airborne micro-particles by the means of integrating, amplifying and digitizing electric charge signals generated by photo-sensors as it receives scattered photons by the presence of micro-particles, consisting of a pre-amplifier that detects and amplifies voltage or current signal from photo-sensor that generates charges (hole-electron pairs) when exposed to visible rays, infrared rays, ultraviolet rays, etc. according to the intensity of rays; a shaper for shaping the amplified signal to a semi-gaussian waveform; two discriminators and binary counters for outputting digital signals by comparing the magnitude of the shaped signal with an arbitrary reference voltages. The ASIC with the proposed architecture and functional blocks in this study was designed with a 0.18um standard CMOS technology from Global Foundries and the operation and performances of the ASIC has been verified by the silicons fabricated by using the process.

본 연구는 가시광선, 적외선, 자외선 등이 대기 중의 물리입자에 의해 산란되는 빛(광자)을 받아서 발생하는 전하(전자 전공 쌍)를 집적하여 전압신호로 변환 및 증폭하는 전치증폭단과, 증폭된 신호의 파형을 semi-gaussian으로 보정하는 파형보정기 및 신호의 크기를 임의의 기준전압과 비교하여 신호 크기에 따른 펄스를 2진수 디지털 신호로 출력시키는 비교기와 계수기를 포함하는 물리입자 검출용 ASIC 칩 설계에 관한 것이다. 본 연구에서 제안한 구조 및 기능 블록을 갖는 ASIC은 Global Foundries의 0.18um standard CMOS 공정 변수를 사용하여 설계하였으며, 동 공정을 이용하여 칩을 제작하여 동작 및 성능을 검증 확인하였다.

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