Publications and Technical Reports

2018

• Influence of the continuous light flux on the SiPM gain by using WEEROC QFP and BGA packages CITIROC 1A evaluation board
   Giuseppe Romeo
   - Technical Report: ASTRI-TR-OACT-3200-038

• CITIROC 1A Gain Bandwidth Product (GBW) influence on the SiPM Optical Cross-Talk (OCT)
  Giuseppe Romeo
  - Technical Report: ASTRI-TR-OACT-3200-039

• How a very high GBWP (3.0 GHz) preamplifier and high bandwidth of a front-end electronics may solve the Optical Cross-Talk issue
  Giuseppe Romeo
  - Technical Report: ASTRI-TR-OACT-3200-040

 

2016

• Temperature characterization of the CITIROC front-end chip of the ASTRI SST-2M Cherenkov camera
   Impiombato D., Giarrusso S., Mineo T., Catalano O., Gargano C., La Rosa G., Russo F., Sangiorgi P., Sottile G., Bonanno G., Garozzo S., Grillo A., Marano D., Romeo G
   – SPIE 2016, Ground-based and Airbone Telescopes VI, vol. 990645

• ASTRI SST-2M camera electronics
  G. Sottile, O. Catalano, G. La Rosa, M. Capalbi, C. Gargano, S. Giarrusso, D. Impiombato, F. Russo, P. Sangiorgi, A. Segreto, G. Bonanno, S. Garozzo, D. Marano, G. Romeo, S. Scuderi, L. Stringhetti, R. Canestrari, R. Gimenes
  – SPIE 2016, Ground-based and Airbone Telescopes VI, vol. 99063D

• A New Simple and Effective Procedure for SiPM Electrical Parameter Extraction
  Davide Marano, Giovanni Bonanno, Salvatore Garozzo, Alessandro Grillo and Giuseppe Romeo
  – IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 3620-3626, ISSN: 1530-437X

• Front-End Electronics for the Muon Portal Project
  S. Garozzo, D. Marano, G. Bonanno, A. Grillo, G. Romeo, M.C. Timpanaro, D. Lo Presti, F. Riggi, V. Russo, D. Bonanno, P. La Rocca, F. Longhitano, D. G. Bongiovanni, G. Fallica, G. Valvo
  - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, vol. 833, pp. 169-180, ISSN: 0168-9002

• Aggiornamenti Firmware dell'FPGA per la Front-End Electronics della Camera del Telescopio ASTRI SST-2M - V1
   D. Marano, S. Garozzo, G. Bonanno, A. Grillo, G. Romeo, M.C. Timpanaro, M. Rapisarda
   - Technical Report: ASTRI-TR-OACT-3200-031

 

2015

• A new enhanced PSPICE implementation of the equivalent circuit model of SiPM detectors
  D. Marano, G. Bonanno, S. Garozzo, G. Romeo, A. D. Grasso, G. Palumbo, S. Pennisi
  - New Circuits and System Conference (NEWCAS), 2015 IEEE 13th International, pp. 1-4, Grenoble

• Characterization and performance of the ASIC (CITIROC) front-end of the ASTRI camera
  D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso, T. Mineo, O. Catalano, C. Gargano, G. La Rosa, F. Russo, G. Sottile, S. Billotta, G. Bonanno, S. Garozzo, A. Grillo, D. Marano, G. Romeo.
  - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, vol. 794, pp. 185-192, ISSN: 0168-9002

• New Improved Model and Accurate Analytical Response of SiPMs Coupled to Read-Out Electronics
  Davide Marano, Giovanni Bonanno, Salvatore Garozzo, Alessandro Grillo and Giuseppe Romeo
  - IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 19-21, ISSN: 1530-437X

 

2014

• A new accurate analytical expression for the SiPM transient response to single photons
  D. Marano, G. Bonanno, M. Belluso, S. Billotta, A. Grillo, S. Garozzo, G. Romeo, A.D. Grasso, S. Pennisi, G. Palumbo.
  - ICECS 2014, pp. 514-517, Piscataway (NJ): IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-4243-5

• CITIROC High-Level Analog Front-End Model Implementation and Simulations
  D.Marano, M.Belluso, G.Bonanno, S.Billotta, A.Grillo, S.Garozzo, G.Romeo, O.Catalano, G.La Rosa, G. Sottile, D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso.
  – International Journal Of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 8, pp.274-285, ISSN: 1998-4464

• Accurate Analytical Single-Photoelectron Response of Silicon Photomultipliers
  Marano Davide, Bonanno Giovanni, Belluso Massimiliano, Billotta Sergio, Grillo Alessandro, Garozzo Salvatore, Romeo Giuseppe.
  – IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 14, no. 8, pp. 2749-2754, ISSN: 1530-437X

• PSPICE High-Level Model and Simulations of the EASIROC Analog Front-End
  Davide Marano, Giovanni Bonanno, Sergio Billotta, Massimiliano Belluso, Alessandro Grillo, Salvatore Garozzo, Giuseppe Romeo, Osvaldo Catalano, Giovanni La Rosa, Giuseppe Sottile, and Domenico Impiombato
  - International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, vol. 34, No.4, ISSN: 0228-6203

• Reliability Test of all 37 SiPM I/F Boards of the ASTRI SST-2M Camera through Pulse Height Distribution Measurements
  Giuseppe Romeo et al.
  - Technical Report: ASTRI-TR-OACT-3200-015

• SiPM Interface Systems for the Characterization of Complete PDMs of the ASTRI SST-2M Telescope Camera
   S. Garozzo, D. Marano, G. Romeo, G. Bonanno, A. Grillo, M.C. Timpanaro
   - Technical Report: ASTRI-TR-OACT-3200-014

• Systematic Calibration Procedure for the Temperature Sensors of the SiPM Interface Boards
  D. Marano, G. Romeo, S. Garozzo, G. Bonanno, A. Grillo, M.C. Timpanaro
  - Technical Report: ASTRI-TR-OACT-3200-013

• ASTRI SST-2M Camera Relative Calibration Procedures
  O. Catalano, D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso, G. Bonanno, G. Romeo, D. Marano, S. Garozzo
  - Technical Report: ASTRI-TN-IASFPA-3200-023

 

2013

• Improved SPICE electrical model of silicon photomultipliers
  D. Marano, G. Bonanno, M. Belluso, S. Billotta, A. Grillo, S. Garozzo, G. Romeo, O. Catalano, G. La Rosa, G. Sottile, D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso
  – Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, vol. 726, pp. 1-7, ISSN: 0168-9002

• Silicon Photomultipliers Electrical Model Extensive Analytical Analysis
  D. Marano, M. Belluso, G. Bonanno, S. Billotta, A. Grillo, S. Garozzo, G. Romeo, O. Catalano, G. La Rosa, G. Sottile, D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso.
  – IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 61 no. 1, pp. 23-24, ISSN: 0018-9499

• Characterization of EASIROC as front-end for the readout of the SiPM at the focal plane of the Cherenkov telescope ASTRI
  D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso, T. Mineo, M. Belluso, S. Billotta, G. Bonanno, O. Catalano, A. Grillo, G. La Rosa, D. Marano, G. Sottile
  – Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2013.07.029

• Characterization of the Front-End EASIROC for Read-Out of SiPM in the ASTRI Camera

D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso, T. Mineo, M. Belluso, S. Billotta, G. Bonanno, O. Catalano, A. Grillo, G. La Rosa, D. Marano, T. Mineo, F. Russo, G. Sottile

- Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplement 00 (2013) 1–4 vol. 239, pp. 254-257 DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2013.05.039

 

2012

• Characterization of the front-end EASIROC for read-out of SiPM in the ASTRI camera

D. Impiombato, S. Giarrusso, M. Belluso, S. Bilotta, G. Bonanno, O. Catalano, A. Grillo, G. La Rosa, D. Marano, T. Mineo, F. Russo, G. Sottile, on behalf of the ASTRI Collaboration

- Proceedings of SciNeGHE 2012-9th Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-ray Experiments. arXiv:1305.0946

 

2000

• TNG new generation CCD controller

Bonanno, G.; Bruno, P.; Cosentino, R.; Scuderi, S.; Bortoletto, F.; D'Alessandro, M.; Bonoli, C.; Fantinel, D.; Carbone, A.; Evola, G.

- Optical Detectors for Astronomy II: State-ofthe-Art at the Turn of the Millenium. 4th ESO CCD Workshop, 1999, held in Garching, Germany, Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-6536-4, The Netherlands, p. 389-394 (2000) Adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000ASSL..252..389B

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