Broadband Signal Amplification Paths for Semiconductor Radiation and Particle Detectors (Review)

This study is devoted to the development of amplifying paths for plasma diagnostics, a significant part of which use semiconductor detectors as sensors that form low-intensity current signals. One feature of these diagnostics is the oscillographic form of registering sensor signals. In tandem with detectors, broadband transimpedance amplifiers that are based on operational amplifiers are used to amplify and normalize sensor signals. The principles of constructing such amplifying paths are considered taking the factors affecting their final noise and frequency characteristics into account. Practical examples of the construction of amplifying paths of corpuscular and neutron plasma diagnostics, as well as the Thomson-scattering diagnostics, that are used at the plasma installations of the Institute of Nuclear Physics (Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences) are presented.