The state-of-the-art of low noise design in particle physics

Abstract This paper discusses the limits reached so far in the design of monolithic front-end systems and the perspectives opened-up by the research aiming at integrating detector and front-end electronics on the same chip. It considers, as an issue of the greatest importance, the radiation hardening of the front-end electronics, without which the design would be unsuitable for the applications at the future accelerators of high luminosity.

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