A more detailed exposition of much of the material contained in these tutorials is presented in my book Semiconductor Detector Systems (Oxford University Press, 2005; 2nd printing 2006). Download the Preface (160kB), Table of Contents (190kB) and a sample chapter (1.7MB).

   Analog and Digital Electronics for Detectors (text, published in Proceedings of the 2003 ICFA School on Instrumentation, Itacuruca, Brazil) (930kB)

   Front-End Electronics and Signal Processing (text, published in Instrumentation in Elementary Particle Physics, AIP Conf. Proc. 674)

   Radiation Detectors and Signal Processing (lecture series presented at University of Heidelberg, Oct. 10-14, 2005)

Notes from 2001 Heidelberg lectures

   Spring Semester 1999 Course Notes, UC Berkeley Physics 198

Homework assignments

   TRIUMF Summer Institute 2007: Silicon Detectors and Electronics

   IEEE NSS Short Course: Front-End Electronics for Detectors , Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007 (5.0MB)

   IEEE NSS Short Course: Pulse Processing and Analysis , Norfolk, Virginia, 2002 (1.7MB)

   Signal Processing (presented at the 2001 ICFA School on Instrumentation, Faure, South Africa), April, 2001 (3.3M)

   Measurements (presented at the ICFA Instrumentation Center, Istanbul, Turkey, June, 2002)

   Front-End Electronics and Signal Processing (presented at the ICFA Instrumentation Center, Morelia, Mexico, November, 2002)

   Analog and Digital Electronics for Detectors (presented at the 2003 ICFA School on Instrumentation, Itacuruca, Brazil, December, 2003)

   SLAC Lectures on Detector Techniques, Fall, 1998

   Introduction to Radiation-Resistant Semiconductor Devices and Circuits, 1996 (245K)

(invited talk at 5th IWORID, Riga, Sept. 2003, Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A531 (2004) 1-17)

   Bolometers and the Big Bang - Detector Arrays for Next-Generation CMB Experiments (26 MB)

(invited talk at the Advanced Instrumentation Seminar, SLAC, Jan. 10, 2007 - expanded version of SNIC-2006 talk) )

   Large-Scale Bolometer Arrays and Readout for Next-Generation CMB Experiments (22.1 MB)

(invited talk at the International Symposium on the Development of Detectors for Particle, Astro-Particle, and Synchrotron Radiation Experiments, SLAC, April 3-6, 2006 )

   Frequency Domain Multiplexing for Large-Scale Bolometer Arrays (340K)

(invited talk at the Far-IR, Sub-mm & mm Detector Technology Workshop. Monterey, CA, April 1-3, 2002 )

   Dynamic Range of a Series Array SQUID (103 kB)

(Compares maximum signal range and noise of SQUID arrays vs. single SQUIDs )

   Limits on SQUID Feedback Amplifier Parameters (67 kB)

(Describes constraints on SQUID parameters in feedback amplifiers with large signal handling capability)