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Point-like broadband ultrasound detection can significantly increase the resolution of ultrasonography and optoacoustic (photoacoustic) imaging, yet current ultrasound detectors cannot be miniaturised sufficiently. Piezoelectric transducers…

We present the development status of the SOIKID, a detector combining the SOI pixel detector and the superconducting detector KID (Kinetic Inductance Detector). The aim of the SOIKID is to measure X-ray photon energy with the resolution…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-07 Hirokazu Ishino , Atsuko Kibayashi , Yosuke Kida , Yousuke Yamada

This paper presents the results of the characterisation of a back-illuminated pixel sensor manufactured in Silicon-On-Insulator technology on a high-resistivity substrate with soft X-rays. The sensor is thinned and a thin Phosphor layer…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-03 Marco Battaglia , Dario Bisello , Richard Celestre , Devis Contarato , Peter Denes , Serena Mattiazzo , Craig Tindall

0.2 um fully-depleted SOI technology has been developed a for X-ray pixel detectors. To improve the detector performance, some advanced process technologies are developing continuously. To utilize the high resistivity FZ-SOI, slow ramp up…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-11-18 Masao Okihara , Hiroki Kasai , Noriyuki Miura , Naoya Kuriyama , Yoshiki Nagatomo

Ultra-sensitive short-wave infrared (SWIR) photon detection is a crucial aspect of ongoing research in quantum technology. However, developing such detectors on a CMOS-compatible silicon technological platform has been challenging due to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 P. Sudha , S. Miyagawa , A. Samanta , D. Moraru

We are developing monolithic pixel sensors based on a 0.2 $\mu$m fully-depleted Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technology for HEP experiment applications. The total ionizing dose (TID) effect is the major issue in the applications for hard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-09-21 Mari Asano , Kazuhiko Hara , Daisuke Sekigawa , Shunsuke Honda , Naoshi Tobita , Yasuo Arai , Toshinobu Miyoshi , Ikuo Kurachi

We report on a measurement of the size of charge clouds produced by X-ray photons in X-ray SOI (Silicon-On-Insulator) pixel sensor named XRPIX. We carry out a beam scanning experiment of XRPIX using a monochromatic X-ray beam at 5.0 keV…

FORCE is a Japan-US space-based astronomy mission for an X-ray imaging spectroscopy in an energy range of 1--80 keV. The Wideband Hybrid X-ray Imager (WHXI), which is the main focal plane detector, will use a hybrid semiconductor imager…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Hiromasa Suzuki , Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Aya Bamba , Koichi Hagino , Ayaki Takeda , Koji Mori , Takahiro Hida , Masataka Yukumoto , Yusuke Nishioka , Takeshi G. Tsuru

We report a high Responsivity broad band photo-detector working in the wavelength range 400 nm to 1100 nm in a horizontal array of Si microlines (line width ~1 micron) fabricated on a Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) wafer. The array was made…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 Shaili Sett , Vishal Kumar Aggarwal , Achintya Singha , Sandip Bysakh , A. K. Raychaudhuri

We developed a beam telescope system comprising five layers of 300-$\mu$m-thick INTPIX4NA monolithic pixel sensors with each pixel size of 17 $\mu$m square. The sensors were fabricated using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-08-24 Hisanori Suzuki , Takumi Omori , Kazuhiko Hara , Hiroki Yamauchi , Miho Yamada , Toru Tsuboyama , Ayaki Takeda

We have been developing the monolithic active pixel detector "XRPIX" onboard the future X-ray astronomical satellite "FORCE". XRPIX is composed of CMOS pixel circuits, SiO2 insulator, and Si sensor by utilizing the silicon-on-insulator…

We have been developing a monolithic active pixel sensor, ``XRPIX``, for the Japan led future X-ray astronomy mission ``FORCE`` observing the X-ray sky in the energy band of 1-80 keV with angular resolution of better than 15``. XRPIX is an…

The hyperspectral X-ray imaging has been long sought in various fields from material analysis to medical diagnosis. Here we propose a new semiconductor detector structure to realize energy-resolved imaging at potentially low cost. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-07-26 Tengfei Yan , Chunlei Yang , Xiaodong Cui

We have been developing X-ray SOIPIXs, "XRPIX", for future X-ray astronomy satellites. XRPIX is equipped with a function of "event-driven readout", which allows us to readout signal hit pixels only and realizes a high time resolution…

We have been developing X-ray SOIPIXs for next-generation satellites for X-ray astronomy. Their high time resolution ($\sim10~\mu$s) and event-trigger-output function enable us to read out without pile-ups and to use anti-coincidence…

In recent years, scientific Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (sCMOS) devices have been increasingly applied in X-ray detection, thanks to their attributes such as high frame rate, low dark current, high radiation tolerance and low…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-14 Yu Hsiao , Zhixing Ling , Chen Zhang , Wenxin Wang , Quan Zhou , Xinyang Wang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Weimin Yuan

We are developing DAQ for Si-pixel detectors by using a Slicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology. This DAQ consists of firmware works on SEABAS (Soi EvAluation BoArd with Sitcp) DAQ board and software works on PC. We have been working on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-07-20 Ryutaro Nishimura , Yasuo Arai , Toshinobu Miyoshi

A future compact and modular X and gamma-ray spectrometer (XGS) has been designed and a series of prototypes have been developed and tested. The experiment envisages the use of CsI scintillator bars read out at both ends by single-cell 25…

Silicon is an extremely attractive material platform for integrated optics at telecommunications wavelengths, particularly for integration with CMOS circuits. Developing detectors and electrically pumped lasers at telecom wavelengths are…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Baehr-Jones , M. Hochberg , A. Scherer

The phonon-mediated hybrid detector is made out of a monolithic silicon crystal characterized by two interconnected regions linked through a narrow neck. Operating solely on phonon signal measurements, the hybrid design facilitates the…