Publications & Conferences
Dissemination activities related to NexGenRE
NexGenRE presented first results at DPG 2026
The first results of NexGenRE were presented at the DPG Spring Meeting 2026 in Erlangen, one of the largest physics conferences in Europe organized by the German Physical Society (DPG).The presentation marked an important milestone for the project, highlighting ongoing developments in next-generation readout electronics. Sharing these early results with the wider scientific community provided valuable feedback and opened discussions on future directions, performance optimization, and potential collaborations.The conference provided an excellent platform to increase the visibility of the project within the detector and electronics communities while creating valuable opportunities for future collaboration.
NexGenRE at IEEE PACET 2026
Further results from NexGenRE were presented IEEE conference, PACET 2026. This event was particularly valuable as it enabled the project to receive feedback from the electronics and engineering communities, complementing the perspectives previously obtained from physics-focused conferences.
Discussions with specialists in integrated circuit design, signal processing, and hardware development provided important insights for the continued improvement of next-generation readout electronics for physics applications.
Presenting NexGenRE at PACET 2026 further increased the visibility of the project while strengthening the connection between frontier physics instrumentation and modern electronics engineering. The conference offered an excellent platform to exchange ideas with researchers and engineers working in advanced electronic technologies.
NexGenRE results published in AEÜ – International Journal of Electronics and Communications
We are pleased to announce that the article “A Compact Low-Power Analog Front-End for DEPFET-Based Detector Readout Systems” by Vasiliki Gogolou, Hans Krüger and Jochen Dingfelder has been published in Elsevier’s AEÜ – International Journal of Electronics and Communications, as part of the special issue on PACET 2026.
The article presents the analog front-end developed within NexGenRE for high-frame-rate DEPFET detector readout. Each readout channel combines a transimpedance amplifier with a switched-capacitor fully differential amplifier, enabling direct interfacing with high-speed, low-power differential analog-to-digital converters. Implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process, the front-end occupies only 50 µm × 50 µm per channel and, in post-layout simulations, achieves a bandwidth of 26 MHz, an input-referred noise of 56 nA and a power dissipation of 1.5 mW. Compared with the closest comparable DEPFET readout used in the Belle II experiment, this corresponds to about 50 % less silicon area and lower noise, demonstrating the potential of the design for next-generation, high-channel-density detector systems.
The article is available in open access:
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2026.156575
