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Fig. 6

From: Development of miniaturized pick-up amplification circuit for plasma particle detectors on board satellites

Fig. 6

Measurement configuration used to evaluate the performance of the designed chip. The MCP is installed inside a vacuum chamber. When an ion hits the MCP, a current pulse is emitted from the anode and fed into the chip. Three monitoring points are indicated by circles: the input of the current pulse amplification circuit (CHIP IN), the output of the current pulse amplification circuit (AMP OUT), and the output of the comparator (COMPARATOR OUT). When measuring the temperature dependence of the amplifier performances, we placed the chip in the thermostat chamber and varied the temperature from \(-20\) to \(60\,^\circ{\rm C}\)

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