Electronics
The LAPP’s electronics department employs 17 engineers and engineering assistants. Its mission is to design and implement analogue and digital electronic systems, which are essential for the operation of experiments, but also for specific R&D projects in electronics and detectors.
The department’s staff develop the entire detector reading chain, from low-noise, low-power signal amplification to digitisation, processing by fast, high-performance systems and finally sending the data to the experiment’s computer acquisition system.
The department also designs systems for the peripheral operation of detectors, such as time base distribution systems, electrical services and security, supervision and control systems.
Skills and professions
In the context of international collaborations, the electronics department provides support for the LAPP’s contribution physics programmes: design, production and maintenance of the electronic systems required for the smooth running of the laboratory’s experiments:
- Definition of specifications with the physicists involved in the experiment.
- Design, production and fine-tuning of prototypes.
- Definition of test tools for mass production of electronic modules.
- Assessment of resources and budgets.
- Working with industrial subcontractors.
- Maintenance of experiments.
- Providing technical support to other laboratory departments.
- Project management
Service organisation
The department has a staff of 17 (engineers, assistant engineers) specialising in electronics (analogue, digital, microelectronics) and instrumentation, as well as students on work placements or dissertations.
The department has a technical platform with 6 rooms, including an assembly and soldering laboratory, test rooms and technical development rooms, and is responsible for maintaining licences for the essential CAD/CAE tools.
The department also manages and maintains a range of measurement and test equipment.