Erik HM Heijne

Erik HM Heijne (born April 27, 1945 ) is a Dutch physicist who deals with semiconductor detectors in particle physics. He is an instrument physicist at CERN .

Heijne went to school in Amsterdam with the Abitur 1963 studied physics at the University of Amsterdam with a doctorate. From 1973 he was at CERN, where he worked on semiconductor detectors for neutrino experiments .

Around 1980 he demonstrated the production of silicon strip detectors in planar technology (independently of Robert Klanner and Gerhard Lutz in Munich) and demonstrated their use in particle physics (with Bernard Hyams ) and in 1989 introduced pixel detectors to particle physics, where they revolutionized particle detectors and were later used, for example, on the LHC's Atlas detector . There they enable an image sequence that is seven orders of magnitude higher than the bubble chamber recordings in the mid-1970s and greater precision.

After visiting the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (IMEC) in Löwen in 1984, he and Pierre Jarron set up a group in 1986 at CERN to design full-custom chip designs for signal processing using CMOS technology. This made it possible to design special readout chips adapted to the respective detector. From 1988 to 1999 he headed a group at CERN that developed monolithic and hybrid pixel semiconductor detectors and new methods (1995) to deal with the massive radiation in CMOS technology that occurs with particle detectors in high-energy accelerators.

He has produced over 150 scientific publications and edited five conference reports (2005). In 2014 he gave a plenary talk at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco on the application of semiconductor detectors at the LHC.

In 1999 he received the IEEE-NPSS Merit Award. In 2004 he became a Fellow of the IEEE . In 2017, he and Robert Klanner and Gerhard Lutz received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize for the development of silicon strip detectors.

Fonts

• Editor with R. Klanner: New developments in silicon detectors (Proc., European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors, Munich 1983), North-Holland 1984
• Published by: New developments in radiation detectors: Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Semiconductor Detectors, Munich 1986, North-Holland 1987
• Editor with Ingrid Debusschere, H. Kraner: Silicon Pixel Detectors (International Workshop on Silicon Pixel Detectors for Particles and X-Rays, Löwen 1990), North-Holland 1991

Web links

• Biography on Linkedin
• Biography from the IEEE Sensors Journal 2005 with photo
• Heijne, Jarron Silicon detector development in Europe, CERN, around 1990 (pdf)
• Laudation for High Energy and Particle Physics Prize at Nikhef 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heijne, Silicon detectors, 60 years of innovation , seminar, Prague 2016