[paper] CMOS Technology for Analog Applications in High Energy Physics

Gianluca Traversi, Luigi Gaioni, Lodovico Ratti, Valerio Re and Elisa Riceputi

Characterization of a 28 nm CMOS Technology

for Analog Applications in High Energy Physics 

in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2024.3382348

1 INFN Pavia and Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze Applicate, Uni. Bergamo, Italy
2 INFN Pavia and Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione, Uni. Pavia, Italy

Abstract: In the last few years, the 28 nm CMOS technology has raised interest in the High Energy Physics community for the design and implementation of readout integrated circuits for high granularity position sensitive detectors. This work is focused on the characterization of the 28 nm CMOS node with a particular focus on the analog performance. Small signal characteristics and the behavior of the white and 1/f noise components are studied as a function of the device polarity, dimensions, and bias conditions to provide guidelines for minimum noise design of front-end electronics. Comparison with data extracted from previous CMOS generations are also presented to assess the performance of the technology node under evaluation. 

Fig: Transconductance efficiency gm/ID as a function of the normalized

drain current IDL/W for NMOS (a) and PMOS (b) devices (|VDS| = 0.9 V)

Acknowledgment: The activity leading to the results presented in this paper was carried out in the framework of the Falaphel project, funded by the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). The authors wish to thank Prof. Massimo Manghisoni (University of Bergamo) for the valuable advice which contributed to improve this work and Dr. Stefano Bonaldo (University of Padova) for fruitful discussions on the measurement results. The authors wish to thank also Barbara Pini (INFN Torino) for the wire bonding of the chips, Emilio Meroni and Nicola Cattaneo (University of Bergamo) for the characterization activity.