Sideward Depletion: A Novel Detector Family Pushes the Performance of the Integrated Front End to New Heights

To fully understand the breakthrough represented by the concept of sideward depletion, not only in the field of radiation detection but also for the integrated low-noise front end, we have to go back to the late 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s to see what was then the state of the art in detector and front-end electronics design.