Timing performance comparison of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers

Ruud Vinke; Jung Yeol Yeom; Massimo Mazzillo; D. Sanfilippo; A. Piana; Craig S. Levin

doi:10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551487

Timing performance comparison of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers

Ruud Vinke, Jung Yeol Yeom, Massimo Mazzillo, D. Sanfilippo, A. Piana, Craig S. Levin

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Abstract

We have investigated the timing performance of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) in light of their use in time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) detectors. Polished 3 mm × 3 mm × 5 mm and 3 mm × 3 mm × 20 mm LYSO:Ce scintillators were coupled to STmicroelectronics P-on-N and N-on-P SiPMs. The SiPMs were read out with low-noise RF transimpedance amplifiers and fed to a waveform digitizer for offline time pickoff analysis. For the P-on-N devices coincidence resolving times (CRTs) of 234 ps and 189 ps FWHM were obtained with the 3 mm × 3 mm × 20 mm and 3 mm × 3 mm × 5 mm crystals, respectively. For the N-on-P devices CRTs of 280 ps and 214 ps FWHM, respectively, were obtained with above crystal types. The P-on-N devices are promising for TOF-PET due to their high photon detection efficiency (PDE) and low transit time spread (TTS).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012
Pages	2128-2130
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551487
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012 - Anaheim, CA, United States Duration: 2012 Oct 29 → 2012 Nov 3

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Name	IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
ISSN (Print)	1095-7863

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Other	2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Anaheim, CA
Period	12/10/29 → 12/11/3

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Radiation
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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Vinke, R., Yeom, J. Y., Mazzillo, M., Sanfilippo, D., Piana, A., & Levin, C. S. (2012). Timing performance comparison of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers. In 2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012 (pp. 2128-2130). [6551487] (IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record). https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551487

Timing performance comparison of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers. / Vinke, Ruud; Yeom, Jung Yeol; Mazzillo, Massimo et al.
2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012. 2012. p. 2128-2130 6551487 (IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record).

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Vinke, R, Yeom, JY, Mazzillo, M, Sanfilippo, D, Piana, A & Levin, CS 2012, Timing performance comparison of P-on-N and N-on-P silicon photomultipliers. in 2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012., 6551487, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, pp. 2128-2130, 2012 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference Record, NSS/MIC 2012, Anaheim, CA, United States, 12/10/29. https://doi.org/10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551487

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