We have developed a series of monolithic multi-element germanium detectors, based on sensor arrays produced by the Forschungzentrum Julich, and on Application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) developed at Brookhaven. Devices have been made with element counts ranging from 64 to 384. These detectors are being used at NSLS-II and APS for a range of diffraction experiments, both monochromatic and energy-dispersive. Compact and powerful readout systems have been developed, based on the new generation of FPGA system-on-chip devices, which provide closely coupled multi-core processors embedded in large gate arrays. We will discuss the technical details of the systems, and present some of the results from them.
@article{arxiv.1804.08660,
title = {Multi-element Germanium Detectors for Synchrotron Applications},
author = {Abdul K. Rumaiz and Anthony J. Kuczewski and Joseph Mead and Emerson Vernon and Donald Pinelli and Eric Dooryhee and Sanjit Ghose and Thomas Caswell and D. Peter Siddons and Antonino Miceli and Jonathan Baldwin and Jonathan Almer and John Okasinski and Orlando Quaranta and Russell Woods and Thomas Krings and Stuart Stock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08660},
year = {2018}
}