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... The latter is well suited to study the intrinsic properties of the transistor (e.g. bias curves, gain, and voltage noise), and leads to reasonable output gain of about 10 which is enough to be coupled to low-noise room temperature amplifiers [26]. The HEMTs and drain resistors are mounted on a custom PCB encapsulated in a copper chassis on the MiniCryoCube 1 K stage. ...
... The latter are computed assuming a standard Fano factor value of F = 0.1057 ± 0.0002 at 5.9 keV for Ge detectors operated at 77 K [29] and a mean energy to create an electron-hole pair of 3.0 eV [30,31]. This could be explained by both the incomplete charge collection and the event-toevent gain variations expected with these common source preamplifiers which are not in a closed loop configuration [26]. In addition to the 71 Ge K-and L-shell electron capture lines, the energy spectra shown in Fig. 3 exhibit a continuous component rising at the lowest energies. ...
... Though the HEMT-based common source preamplifiers considered here allowed us to first study the HEMT properties and achieve a 30 eVee-scale ionization resolution, they do not fully comply with the CryoCube readout specifications. Due to their low-gain (∼10) and their required lownoise amplifiers at room temperature, the collaboration has developed optimized HEMT-based preamplifiers that will be tested in the coming months [26]. The increased gain of these preamplifiers will lead to a lower sensitivity to environmental noise with a gain of 100. ...
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... The latter is well suited to study the intrinsic properties of the transistor (e.g. bias curves, gain, and voltage noise), and leads to reasonable output gain of about 10 which is enough to be coupled to low-noise room temperature amplifiers [24]. The HEMTs and drain resistors are mounted on a custom PCB encapsulated in a copper chassis on the MiniCryoCube 1 K stage. ...
... at 5.9 keV for Ge detectors operated at 77 K [30]. This could be explained by both the incomplete charge collection and the eventto-event gain variations expected with these common source preamplifiers which are not in a closed loop configuration [24]. In addition to the 71 Ge K-and Lshell electron capture lines, the energy spectra shown in Fig. 3 exhibit a continuous component rising at the lowest energies. ...
... Though the HEMT-based common source preamplifiers considered here allowed us to first study the HEMT properties and achieve a 30 eVeescale ionization resolution, they do not fully comply with the CryoCube readout specifications. Due to their low-gain (∼10) and their required low-noise amplifiers at room temperature, the collaboration has developed optimized HEMT-based preamplifiers that will be tested in the coming months [24]. The increased gain of these preamplifiers will lead to a lower sensitivity to environmental noise with a gain of 100. ...
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