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G-CoReCCD: a GPU-based simulator of the charge transport in fully-depleted CCDs

Instrumentation and Detectors 2022-03-22 v1 Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Abstract

We introduce a simulator of charge transport in fully-depleted, thick CCDs that include Coulomb repulsion between carriers. The calculation of this long-range interaction is highly intensive computationally, and only a few thousands of carriers can be simulated in reasonable times using regular CPUs. G-CoReCCD takes advantage of the high number of multiprocessors available in a graphical processing unit (GPU) to parallelize the operations and thus achieve a massive speedup. We can simulate the path inside the CCD bulk for up to hundreds of thousands of carriers in only a few hours using modern GPUs.

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@article{arxiv.2203.11043,
  title  = {G-CoReCCD: a GPU-based simulator of the charge transport in fully-depleted CCDs},
  author = {Nicolás E. Avalos and Miguel Sofo Haro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.11043},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 6 figures, presented at SPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2020