ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025
A Sensor Employing an Array of Silicon Photomultipliers for Detection of keV Ions in Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.
Antonio Mariscal-Castilla, Markus Piller, Jerome Alozy, Rafael Ballabriga, Michael Campbell, Oscar de la Torre, David Gascón, Sergio Gómez, David Heathcote, Joan Mauricio and 4 more
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Antonio Mariscal-CastillaDepartment of Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Institut de Ciències Del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.
Markus PillerDepartment of Microelectronics, Cern, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1408-2962 Jerome AlozyDepartment of Microelectronics, Cern, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland.
Rafael BallabrigaDepartment of Microelectronics, Cern, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland.
Michael CampbellDepartment of Microelectronics, Cern, Esplanade des Particules 1, 1211 Meyrin, Switzerland.
Oscar de la TorreDepartment of Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Institut de Ciències Del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.
David GascónDepartment of Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Institut de Ciències Del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.
Sergio GómezSerra Hunter Fellow, Department of Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08034 Barcelona, Spain.
David HeathcoteChemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0611-8555 Joan MauricioDepartment of Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Institut de Ciències Del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9331-1363 Dennis MilesevicChemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-4909-5293 Andreu SanuyDepartment of Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Institut de Ciències Del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5767-3623 Claire VallanceChemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK.
Daniel GubermanDepartment of Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Institut de Ciències Del Cosmos, Universidad de Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-9636-1825 Funding
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/T021675/1Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council EP/V026690/1MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, "ERDF A way of 332 making Europe" PDC2021-121442-10MICIIN with funding from European Union 334 NextGenerationEU(PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat de Catalunya. PRTR-C17.I1Spanish Government through the European 336 Union NextGenerationEU fund. Maria Zambrano Grant
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Pixellated scintillation detectors have the potential to overcome several limitations of conventional microchannel-plate-based detectors employed in time-of-flight mass spectrometry (ToF-MS), such as extending detector lifetime, reducing vacuum requirements, or increasing the ion throughput. We have developed a prototype comprising a fast organic scintillator (Exalite 404) coupled to an array of 16 silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), with read-out electronics based on the FastIC application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC). Each SiPM signal processed by FastIC is fed into its own time-to-digital converter (TDC). The dead time of a single channel can be as short as ∼20 ns. As a result, our system have the potential to process ion rates above 109 cm
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ASICsion detectorsilicon photomultiplierSiPMtime-of-flight mass spectrometryvelocity-map imaging
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