Recent progress in the development of a monolithic active pixel detector for a B factory

Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) may become the building blocks of vertex detectors at future high luminosity e(+)e(-) colliders. Requiring an active layer only a few tens of microns thick, MAPS can be thinned to similar to 50 mu m, which reduces the multiple scattering of primary particles. Deep sub-micron CMOS processes allow for small pixel size, needed for adequate single point resolution and low occupancy at a Super B factory. Major concerns with MAPS are readout speed and signal stability for large pixel arrays. Laser bench test results of a full size prototype (CAP3) with 118,784 readout pixels and a 5-deep correlated double sampling pipeline are presented. Lessons learned are applied to a design iteration and investigation of two new digital readout sensor designs, all included in the CAP4 prototype chip. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.