Acknowledgements
This work has been carried out within the Microelectronics Research Group and the
Experimental Nuclear Physics group at the Department of Physics and Technology,
University of Bergen, during the period of May 2013 to May 2017.
I would like to thank my supervisors Kjetil Ullaland and Dieter Röhrich for
guidance and support throughout the work of this thesis.
I would additionally like to extend my thanks to the SAMPA team for an
excellent collaboration. Bruno Sanches, Hugo Daniel Hernandez Herrera and Alex
Kluge for which without, this project would have been pale in comparison. Marco
Bregant, Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz, Wilhelmus Van Noije and Armando Ayala
Pabon for well-executed project organization. And also a special thanks to the rest
of the Brazil team, Heitor Neves, Raul Acosta Hernandez, Tiago Oliveira Weber,
Dionisio Carvalho, Danielle Moraes, Stelvio Barboza, Shiroma Montali, Heiner
Grover Alarcon Cubas, Arthur Lombardi Campos and Andre Luis Do Couto.
I extend my thanks to the detector groups, which I have interacted with during
my work and their help in testing the chip to prove its potential. The TPC group;
Kenneth F. Read, Charles L. Britton, LLoyd G. Clonts, Anders Oskarsson, Ulf
Mjörnmark, David Silvermyr, Jonathan Adolfsson, Torsten Alt, Sebastian Klewin,
Matthias Richter, Christian Lippman. The MCH group; Valerie Chambert, Khaing
Mon Mon Tun-Lanoë, Hervé Borel, Christophe Suire, Cristophe Flouzat, Clément
de Barbarin, Patrice Russo, Emmanuel Rauly, Gwenaël Brulin and Noël Guillaume.
Tonko Ljuibicic at the STAR detector and Alexander Pilyar at the Dubna group.
For introducing me to the wonders of the S-ALTRO, I would like to thank Paul
Aspell and Tiina Sirea Naaranoja.
Finally I would like to thank my collaborators and colleagues at the University
of Bergen and Oslo whom I have shared a great time with; Ganesh Jagannath
Tambave, Johan Alme, Sohail Musa Mahmood, Ketil Røed, Attiq Ur Rehman,
Chengxin Zhao, Lars Bratrud, Kristian Smeland Ytre-Hauge, Anders Mikkelsen,
Anders Østevik, Kristian Philip Engeseth, Christian Torgersen, Inge Nikolai
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This work has been carried out within the Microelectronics Research Group and the
Experimental Nuclear Physics group at the Department of Physics and Technology,
University of Bergen, during the period of May 2013 to May 2017.
I would like to thank my supervisors Kjetil Ullaland and Dieter Röhrich for
guidance and support throughout the work of this thesis.
I would additionally like to extend my thanks to the SAMPA team for an
excellent collaboration. Bruno Sanches, Hugo Daniel Hernandez Herrera and Alex
Kluge for which without, this project would have been pale in comparison. Marco
Bregant, Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz, Wilhelmus Van Noije and Armando Ayala
Pabon for well-executed project organization. And also a special thanks to the rest
of the Brazil team, Heitor Neves, Raul Acosta Hernandez, Tiago Oliveira Weber,
Dionisio Carvalho, Danielle Moraes, Stelvio Barboza, Shiroma Montali, Heiner
Grover Alarcon Cubas, Arthur Lombardi Campos and Andre Luis Do Couto.
I extend my thanks to the detector groups, which I have interacted with during
my work and their help in testing the chip to prove its potential. The TPC group;
Kenneth F. Read, Charles L. Britton, LLoyd G. Clonts, Anders Oskarsson, Ulf
Mjörnmark, David Silvermyr, Jonathan Adolfsson, Torsten Alt, Sebastian Klewin,
Matthias Richter, Christian Lippman. The MCH group; Valerie Chambert, Khaing
Mon Mon Tun-Lanoë, Hervé Borel, Christophe Suire, Cristophe Flouzat, Clément
de Barbarin, Patrice Russo, Emmanuel Rauly, Gwenaël Brulin and Noël Guillaume.
Tonko Ljuibicic at the STAR detector and Alexander Pilyar at the Dubna group.
For introducing me to the wonders of the S-ALTRO, I would like to thank Paul
Aspell and Tiina Sirea Naaranoja.
Finally I would like to thank my collaborators and colleagues at the University
of Bergen and Oslo whom I have shared a great time with; Ganesh Jagannath
Tambave, Johan Alme, Sohail Musa Mahmood, Ketil Røed, Attiq Ur Rehman,
Chengxin Zhao, Lars Bratrud, Kristian Smeland Ytre-Hauge, Anders Mikkelsen,
Anders Østevik, Kristian Philip Engeseth, Christian Torgersen, Inge Nikolai
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