APS Detector Development

This page provides links to detector development projects being persued by the Beamline Technical Support staff.

Detector Pool Overview
This powerpoint presentation written by Nino Miceli provides an overview of the components that are available within the APS Detector Pool

APS Detector Initiatives
This powerpoint file written by John Weizoerich and Tim Madden was used to create the Detector Pool poster presented at the 2006 APS Users Meeting.

Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs)
The detector pool can now provide several copies of an avalanche photodiode (APD) plus radio frequency (RF) amplifier.

Digital Electronics
This page provides links to current development projects in digital electronics.

FCCD (Fast CCD) Project
This section features the most recent information pertaining to the APS collaboration with LBNL.

Quad Electrometer for XBPMs
Steve Ross has designed a 4-channel electrometer for measuring currents in the nA to uA range.

quadEM Software
Mark Rivers has written software for controllig the Quad Electrometer hardware.

quadEM User's Guide

Generic Digital Cards User's Guide