Zecotek sells MAPD photo detectors
2007-12-13 06:59 ET - News Release
Dr. A.F. Zerrouk reports
ZECOTEK RECEIVES MAPD SOLID-STATE PHOTO DETECTOR ORDER FROM INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS RESEARCH
Zecotek Photonics Inc. has received an order for a supply of its proprietary micro-pixel avalanche photo diodes (MAPD) solid-state photo detectors from the Institute of High Energy Physics Research (INR). The MAPD photo detectors will form a critical component in a new, high-performance hadron calorimetre, a device used in key experiments at the European Centre for High Energy particle Physics (CERN) in Switzerland.
"We are very pleased that the INR has selected our MAPD as a critical component for their high-performance calorimetre to be used in the prestigious CERN program," said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Zecotek. "The INR is a leading and highly respected Institute in the field of particle physics and we believe this type of application should result in significant additional and recurring sales for our MAPDs."
The hadron calorimetre will be used for the detection of particles in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the energy range from 10 to 160 GeV per nucleon. Each calorimetre will contain of a large number of modules consisting of multiple layers of plastic scintillator material. Light produced by the particles in the scintillator is collected by a wavelength shifting fiber and collected at a MAPD. The MAPD will provide both high pixel density in excess of 10,000 pixels per square millimetre and required gain.
The INR successfully constructed and tested the first supermodule with MAPDs as a critical component in its CERN labs in Switzerland. Results of the successful application were announced at a recent CERN workshop by the leading researcher, Dr. Fedor Guber.
INR's first calorimetre will require over 1,000 MAPDs which will be supplied through Zecotek Imaging Systems Pte. Ltd., Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Zecotek Photonics Inc. The MAPDs are manufactured under contract by the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems.
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