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Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detectors are a competitive choice for current and upcoming astronomical missions. To understand the performance variations of CMOS detectors in space environment, we investigate the total…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-26 Mengxi Chen , Zhixing Ling , Mingjun Liu , Qinyu Wu , Chen Zhang , Jiaqiang Liu , Zhenlong Zhang , Weimin Yuan , Shuang-Nan Zhang

The apparatus of the ALICE experiment at CERN will be upgraded in 2017/18 during the second long shutdown of the LHC (LS2). A major motivation for this upgrade is to extend the physics reach for charmed and beauty particles down to low…

We present methods to improve the energy resolution of single-channel, room-temperature Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride (CZT) detectors. A new preamplifier design enables the acquisition of the actual transient current from the crystals and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Ramachers , D. Y. Stewart

We report on the design and laboratory testing of a prototype imaging CZT detector intended for balloon flight testing in April 2000. The detector tests several key techniques needed for the construction of large-area CZT arrays, as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. F. Bloser , J. E. Grindlay , T. Narita , J. A. Jenkins

The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) onboard AstroSat, an open detector above $\sim$100 keV, is a promising tool for the investigation of hard X-ray characteristics of $\gamma$-ray pulsars. A custom algorithm has been developed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 K. G. Anusree , Dipankar Bhattacharya , Varun Bhalerao , Akash Anumarlapudi

We have evaluated the performance of a fine pitch CdTe Double-sided Strip Detector (CdTe-DSD), which was originally developed for the focal plane detector of a hard X-ray telescope to observe the Sun. The detector has a thickness of 750 um…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 Kento Furukawa , Shunsaku Nagasawa , Lindsay Glesener , Miho Katsuragawa , Shin'ichiro Takeda , Shin Watanabe , Tadayuki Takahashi

Time and charge measurements over a large dynamic range from 1 Photo Electron (P.E.) to 4000 P.E. are required for the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA), which is one of the key components in the Large High Altitude Air Shower…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-09-26 Yu Liang , Lei Zhao , Yuxiang Guo , Jiajun Qin , Yunfang Yang , Boyu Cheng , Shubin Liu , Qi An

The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager (CZTI) onboard AstroSat is designed for hard X-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the energy range of 20 - 100 keV. The CZT detectors are of 5 mm thickness and hence have good efficiency for Compton…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 Abhay Kumar , Tanmoy Chattopadhyay , Santosh V Vadawale , A. R. Rao , Soumya Gupta , Mithun N. P. S. , Varun Bhalerao , Dipankar Bhattacharya

Results in this paper present an in-depth study of time resolution for active pixels of the RD50-MPW2 prototype CMOS particle detector. Measurement techniques employed include Backside- and Edge-TCT configurations, in addition to electrons…

In this paper the efficiency of direct charged particle detection with different Silicon PhotoMultiplier (SiPM) sensors has been measured to be close to 100%. Time resolution of about 20 ps has also been confirmed for sensors with an active…

The main methods grown Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) crystals with high yield and excellent homogeneity are Modified Horizontal Bridgman (MHB) and High Pressure Bridgman (HPB) processes, respectively. In this contribution, the readout system…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-20 Q. Li , A. Garson , P. Dowkontt , J. Martin , M. Beilicke , I. Jung , M. Groza , A. Burger , G. De Geronimo , H. Krawczynski , . , . , . , .

This work presents the 8-channel FastIC+, a low-power consumption and highly configurable multi-channel front-end ASIC with internal digitization, for the readout of photo-sensors with picosecond time resolution and intrinsic gain. This…

Digital signal processing techniques were employed to investigate the joint use of charge division and risetime analyses for the resistive anode (RA) coupled to a microchannel plate detector (MCP). In contrast to the typical approach of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-12-09 Davinder Siwal , B. B. Wiggins , R. T. deSouza

The Ion Beam Induced Charge Collection (IBIC) technique was used to map the charge collection efficiency (CCE) of a 4H-SiC photodetector with coplanar interdigitated Schottky barrier electrodes and a common ohmic contact on the back side.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-08-31 E. Vittone , N. Skukan , Z. Pastuovic , P. Olivero , M. Jaksic

We present the development of a single-photon detector and the connected read-out electronics. This `hybrid' detector is based on a vacuum tube, transmission photocathode, microchannel plate and a pixelated CMOS read-out anode encapsulating…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-06 J. A. Alozy , N. V. Biesuz , M. Campbell , V. Cavallini , A. Cotta Ramusino , M. Fiorini , M. Guarise , X. Llopart Cudie

Quantum cascade detectors (QCD) are unipolar infrared devices where the transport of the photo excited carriers takes place through confined electronic states, without an applied bias. In this photovoltaic mode, the detector's noise is not…

The use of photon counting detection technology has resulted in significant X-ray imaging research interest in recent years. Computed Tomography (CT) scanners can benefit from photon-counting detectors, which are new technology with the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-08 K. Hameed , Rafidah Zainon , Mahbubunnabi Tamal

In this work, a single crystal CVD diamond film with a novel three-dimensional (3D) interdigitated electrode geometry has been fabricated with the Reactive Ion Etching (RIE) technique in order to increase the charge collection efficiency…

We demonstrate multiphoton discrimination at telecom wavelength with the readout frequency of 40 Hz by charge integration photon detector (CIPD). The CIPD consists of an InGaAs pin photodiode and a GaAs junction field effect transistor as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Fujiwara , Masahide Sasaki

New generation Cadmium Telluride (CZT & CdTe) solid state detectors can provide high quantum efficiency with reasonably good energy resolution and can operate at near room temperature; an unique advantage for space experiments. We present…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Yadav , S. Savitri , J. P. Malkar