IMB-CNM contributes to the INFIERI international school on advanced technologies in semiconductors
The institute is involved in the sponsorship and activities of the 6th Summer School on Intelligent signal processing for Frontier Research and Industry (INFIERI), which is taking place this week in Madrid.
In the picture above: Neil Moffat and Giulio Pellegrini (from left to right) at the INFIERI school in Madrid.
IMB-CNM is an active partner and sponsor of INFIERI, the 6th Summer School on intelligent signal processing for Frontier Research and Industry, being held in Madrid these days. The international school annually targets advanced research in semiconductors, nanotechnology or data transmission, among other areas.
The school started on the 23rd of August and it will continue until the 4th of September in Madrid. The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid is the local organizer and institutions such as IFT-UAM-CSIC, IFAE, IFIC, the University of Oxford and CERN are among the sponsors and contributors to the program, alongside IMB-CNM.
Hands-on laboratory for using LGAD detectors at CERN
Researchers Giulio Pellegrini and Neil Moffat will be doing some laboratory demonstration about the Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD), currently being tested for future experiments at CERN. The school is aimed at PhD students and postdocs, the goal of the lab is to understand Photon detection mechanisms in LGAD Detectors using the Transient Current Technique (TCT). It will be a hands-on laboratory where the students will gain practical skills in data acquisition using specialised software for timing applications.
The Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD) is a silicon photodiode with internal gain and excellent time resolution. This internal gain is provided by a high field region present at the junction between a highly doped n-type region and a medium doped p-type region. It was invented at the IMB-CNM in 2014 for the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at CERN.
INFIERI: six years of high-end technology instrumentation throughout the world
The programme of the school will cover advanced technologies in semiconductors, deep sub-micron 3D technologies, nanotechnology, interconnects, data transmission, Big Data, artificial intelligence, high-performance and Quantum computing, as well as their scientific motivations.
It is around all aspects of the signal processing chain (and building the advanced instruments of the 21st century) that the scientific and technological programme of the INFIERI schools is built.
The present edition in Madrid follows the previous ones held in Oxford, Paris, Hamburg, Sao Paulo and Wuhan.
More information
- INFIERI school.
- Activity organized by IMB-CNM.
- IMB-CNM participes in the creation of the new ATLAS subdetector, at CERN (original information from 2014, in Spanish).