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Skipper-CCDs: current applications and future

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2022-11-23 v1 Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

This work briefly discusses the potential applications of the Skipper-CCD technology in astronomy and reviews its current use in dark matter and neutrino experiments. An overview of the ongoing efforts to build multi-kilogram experiments with these sensors is given, in the context of the Oscura experiment. First results from the characterization of Oscura sensors from the first 200 mm wafer-fabrication run with a new vendor are presented. The overall yield of the electron counting capability of these sensors is 71%. A noise of 0.087 e^- RMS, with 1225 samples/pix, and a dark current of (0.031±\pm0.013) e^-/pix/day at 140 K were measured.

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@article{arxiv.2208.05434,
  title  = {Skipper-CCDs: current applications and future},
  author = {B. A. Cervantes-Vergara and S. Perez and J. C. D'Olivo and J. Estrada and D. J. Grimm and S. Holland and M. Sofo-Haro and W. Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.05434},
  year   = {2022}
}
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