Speaker: Erik Heijne

Title: Innovation in Instrumentation through the use of Microelectronics Technology

Affiliation: Fellow of IEEE, CERN PH Department (CH), also affiliated with IEAP of Czech Technical University Prague (CZ) and Nikhef, Amsterdam (NL)

Abstract: Miniaturization to nanometer silicon technologies allows many functions to be compacted into a small volume. Integration of the sensors and the processing electronics leads to powerful instruments, that can open up completely new fields of applications. In high energy particle physics, the new experiments at the Large Hadron Collider LHC have been based on sophisticated chips, that allow unprecedented event rates: 40 million pictures are recorded per second, continuously. The chips have incorporated memory and selective readout of only the potentially useful data is used to reduce the volume to be transmitted and analyzed. Some of the chips, or the underlying ideas, could find applications in materials analysis, medical imaging or other types of industrial equipment. An amazing result of the work on chips at CERN, has been the discovery, that today it is not extremely difficult to engage in chip design, even starting from scratch, and that one can achieve large benefit from a moderate investment.

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