Instrumentation Division overview
Mission
Develop state-of-the-art instrumentation for current and future Laboratory programs
Established
1948
Division Head
Graham Smith
Staff
- 16 Scientific
- 3 Post Doctoral
- 8 Professional
- 13 Technical
- 4 Administrative
Research Areas
- Semiconductor detectors
- Gas and Noble liquid detectors
- Microelectronics
- Lasers and Optics
- Micro/Nano fabrication
Facilities
- Clean rooms for semiconductor processing (Class 100) and detector fabrication
- Laser and optics laboratories
- Hybrid and integrated circuit design and testing
- Microfabrication and electron microscopy laboratory
- Printed circuit fabrication
- Irradiation facility
Highlights of Accomplishments
- Gas detectors, electronics - (1948)
- Fast(µs) transistorized electronics for physics experiments - (1956)
- First Si detectors, nanosecond electronics - (1960)
- Positron emission tomography detector - (1960)
- Germanium detectors, low noise electronics - (1965)
- LAr ionization chambers for calorimetry - (1973)
- Detectors for neutron scattering - (1976)
- Optical metrology - (1979)
- Electron microscopy, MEMS - (1980)
- First synchrotron X-ray detectors - (1982)
- Silicon drift detector invented - (1983)
- Cryogenic electronics - (1984)
- Lasers in accelerator technology - (1985)
- Si detectors for HEP/NP - (1986)
- Gas detectors for heavy ion physics - (1986)
- Long Trace Profiler - (1987)
- Monolithic low-noise circuits - (1990)
- LAr, LKr ionization chambers, SSC, LHC: - (1993)
- Nanostructures - (1994)
- Deep sub-micron low-noise circuits - (1997)
- Ultrafast optical techniques - (2000)
- Neutron/Gamma detectors for Homeland Security - (2002)
- Small animal imaging - (2003)
- Silicon detectors for synchrotron radiation - (2004)
- LSST: Lead for focal plane sensor array - (2005)
- Beam diagnostics - (2006)
- Neutrino Experiments (MicroBoone, LBNE) - (2009)
- Low Temperature Microelectronics - (2010)
Patents
- Surface profiling interferometer/ US Patent# 4884697 - (1989)
- Low noise charge sensitive preamplifier DC stabilized without physical resistor / US Patent# 5347231 - (1994)
- Monolithic amplifier with stable, high resistance feedback element/ US Patent# 5793254 - (1998)
- Photon generator/ US Patent# 6459766 - (2002)
- Offset-free rail-to-rail deramdomizing peak detect and hold circuit/ US Patent# 6512399 - (2003)
- Method of surface preparation of Niobium/ US Patent# 6524170 - (2003)
- Method for fabricating a high aspect ratio microstructure/ US Patent# 6558868 - (2003)
- Beam splitter and method for generating equal optical path length beams/ US Patent# 6611379 - (2003)
- Method and apparatus for linear low-frequency feedback in monolithic low noise charge amplifiers/ US Patent# 6998913 - (2006)
- Method and apparatus for clockless A-D conversion and peak detection/ US Patent# 7187316 - (2007)
- Secondary emission electron gun using external primaries/ US Patent# 7227297 - (2007)
- Device and method for measurement of depth of interaction using coplanar electrodes/ US Patent# 7271395 - (2007)
- Method and apparatus for signal processing in a sensor system used in spectroscopy/ US Patent# 7378637 - (2008)
- Secondary emission electron gun using external primaries/ US Patent# 7601042 - (2009)
- Multi-anode ionization chamber/ US Patent# 7858949 - (2010)
Total Laboratory/Office Space
36,000 sq. feet
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