ZHU Huanan, WANG Ying, HONG Bing, GUO Haomin, YU Chenghao
Based on the weak signal processing requirements of silicon carbide (SiC) high-performance neutron detection system, a low-noise and low-power SiC neutron detector readout circuit is designed. The readout circuit reads, shapes and amplifies the weak signal output by the SiC neutron detector, and forms a neutron detection system with the front-end detector and the back-end counter, which can realize the needs of neutron count measurement. The designed readout circuit integrates a low-voltage power management module, preamplifier, main amplifier and discriminator. In order to verify the effectiveness of the circuit design, the readout circuit is experimentally tested. The test results indicate that the single board power consumption is about 300 mW, the equivalent input noise is about 1 fC, where the preamplifier linearity is 99.72%, the output dynamic range is about ±3 V, and the total amplification block gain is about 19.28 mV/fC. The designed circuit has the characteristics of low noise, low power consumption, high gain and good stability.