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SiPM-Based Photosensors and Their Applications

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2023) | Viewed by 6316

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Claudio Savarese

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Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Interests: direct dark matter detection; cryogenic analogue electronics; silicon photomultipliers

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few years, the field of photodetectors has been revolutionized by the rise of silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) technology, which is now finding wide application in many areas of fundamental and applied physics. SiPMs conjugate the compactness of solid-state devices with high photon detection efficiency, resilience to hostile environmental conditions, and intrinsically high radiopurity. These sensors proved to be extremely versatile and can be adapted depending on the specific application; peak efficiency wavelength as well as gain and time response are a few examples of parameters that are now routinely optimized. The production process, achieavable in standard silicon foundries, is relatively cheap and grants high production yields by exploiting an extremely well-established industrial pipeline.

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore the use of SiPMs in the various fields of fundamental and applied physics research, to understand the novel challenges and innovative solutions needed to instrument the next generation of physics experiments, as well as to provide reviews of the state-of-the-art of this promising technology.

Dr. Claudio Savarese
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • SiPM
  • silicon
  • photomultiplier
  • photoelectron
  • photodetection efficiency
  • radiation
  • scintillation
  • cherenkov
  • radioactivity

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The Gamma and Neutron Sensor System for Rapid Dose Rate Mapping in the CLEANDEM Project
by Fabio Rossi, Luigi Cosentino, Fabio Longhitano, Saverio Minutoli, Paolo Musico, Mikhail Osipenko, Gaetano Elio Poma, Marco Ripani and Paolo Finocchiaro
Sensors 2023, 23(9), 4210; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23094210 - 23 Apr 2023
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The decommissioning of nuclear installations, as well as the possible necessary accident remediations, requires the physical presence of human operators in potentially radiologically hostile environments. The number of active nuclear reactors worldwide is greater than 400, and most of them are 40 to [...] Read more.
The decommissioning of nuclear installations, as well as the possible necessary accident remediations, requires the physical presence of human operators in potentially radiologically hostile environments. The number of active nuclear reactors worldwide is greater than 400, and most of them are 40 to 50 years old, thus implying that soon they will have to be dismantled. In the framework of the H2020 CLEANDEM project, a small robotic vehicle is being developed that is equipped with a series of different sensors for areas that are significantly contaminated by radiation. In this work, we describe the MiniRadMeter system, a compact low-cost sensor capable of being used to perform quick gamma and neutron radiation field mapping of environments prior to the possible start of human operations. The miniature gamma sensor is a 1 cm3 scintillator counter with moderate spectroscopic features read out by means of a 6 × 6 mm2 SiPM, whereas neutrons are detected by means of a silicon diode coupled to a layer of 6LiF and placed inside a 6 × 6 × 6 cm3 polyethylene box. The front-end and data acquisition electronics were developed based on a Raspberry Pi4 microcomputer. In this paper, the system performance and the preliminary test results are described. Full article
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Statistical Analysis of Silicon Photomultiplier Output Signals
by Zdenek Kolka, Peter Barcik and Viera Biolkova
Sensors 2022, 22(23), 9134; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239134 - 24 Nov 2022
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Silicon photomultipliers are relatively new devices designed as a matrix of single-photon avalanche detectors, which have become popular for their miniature dimensions and low operating voltage. Their superior sensitivity allows detecting low-photon-count optical pulses, e.g., in ranging and LIDAR applications. The output signal [...] Read more.
Silicon photomultipliers are relatively new devices designed as a matrix of single-photon avalanche detectors, which have become popular for their miniature dimensions and low operating voltage. Their superior sensitivity allows detecting low-photon-count optical pulses, e.g., in ranging and LIDAR applications. The output signal of the photomultiplier is a non-stationary stochastic process, from which a weak periodic pulse can be extracted by means of statistical processing. Using the double-exponential approximation of output avalanche pulses the paper presents a simple analytical solution to the mean and variance of the stochastic process. It is shown that even for an ideal square optical pulse the rising edge of the statistically detected signal is longer than the edge of individual avalanche pulses. The knowledge of the detected waveform can be used to design an optimum laser pulse waveform or algorithms for estimating the time of arrival. The experimental section demonstrates the proposed procedure. Full article
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A Scintillator Array Table with Spectroscopic Features
by Fabio Longhitano, Gaetano Elio Poma, Luigi Cosentino and Paolo Finocchiaro
Sensors 2022, 22(13), 4754; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22134754 - 23 Jun 2022
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In the framework of radioactive material handling, such as in radwaste sorting and segregation operations, the availability of a simple tool to quickly detect and locate gamma radiation spots can be quite convenient. Additional spectroscopic features, even with moderate energy resolutions, could provide [...] Read more.
In the framework of radioactive material handling, such as in radwaste sorting and segregation operations, the availability of a simple tool to quickly detect and locate gamma radiation spots can be quite convenient. Additional spectroscopic features, even with moderate energy resolutions, could provide a useful benefit. As a proof of principle for such a tool, we developed a gamma detector prototype featuring an array of 10 × 10 CsI(Tl) scintillators (1 × 1 × 1 cm3) providing readouts by means of a corresponding array of 6 × 6 mm2 silicon photo multipliers (SiPM). Such a detector table could be easily incorporated into a work desk for quick scanning of possibly radioactive objects. The proposed detector has a good counting efficiency and energy resolution, while the simulations and tests show interesting hot-spot localization capabilities. Full article
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