Comparative studies of silicon photomultipliers and traditional vacuum photomultiplier tubes

• Published in: Chinese physics C Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 50 - 55
• Main Author: 石峰 吕军光 卢红 王焕玉 马宇蒨 胡涛 周莉 蔡啸 孙丽君 俞伯祥 方建 谢宇广 安正华 王志刚 高旻 李新乔 徐岩冰 王平 孙希磊 章爱武 薛镇 刘宏邦 王晓东 赵小芸 郑阳恒 孟祥承 王辉
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IOP Publishing 2011; Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS,Beijing 100049,China; University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China%Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China%Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS,Beijing 100049,China; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China%Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS,Beijing 100049,China%Institute of High Energy Physics,CAS,Beijing 100049,China; Shanxi University,Taiyuan 030006,China
• Subjects: Silicon; 光子计数; 光电倍增管; 噪声因子; 并联机床; 粒子物理实验; excess noise factor; silicon photomultiplier; dark current; SiPM; dark counts; PMT
• ISSN: 1674-1137; 0254-3052; 2058-6132
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/35/1/011

Silicon photomultipliers （SiPMs） are a new generation of semiconductor-based photon counting devices with the merits of low weight, low power consumption and low voltage operation, promising to meet the needs of space particle physics experiments. In this paper, comparative studies of SiPMs and traditional vacuum photomultiplier tubes （PMTs） have been performed regarding the basic properties of dark currents, dark counts and excess noise factors. The intrinsic optical erosstalk effect of SiPMs was evaluated.