Wednesday 16 Sepember 2009

Speaker: Chris Damerell   (PPD, RAL)

Title: Physics and technology of silicon detectors

Abstract:

This is an introductory talk, slanted towards particle tracking, which comes to the possibly
controversial conclusion that the new family of charge-coupled CMOS pixel imagers is likely
to emerge as the technology of choice for many tracking systems where minimising the material
budget is important, over the next decade.  This will require the evolution to multi-gigapixel
systems, but that is already happening in astronomy.  The yield of very thin wafer-scale
devices is expected to be high.