A new family of pixel detectors for high frame rate X-ray applications
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT(2010)
摘要
We are developing a new family of hybrid, single photon counting X-ray detectors for very high frame rate applications. A dedicated readout chip was designed, to be used as building block for detectors up to 9 Mpixel and about 550 cm(2) area. It has an area of 19.3 x 20.0 mm(2) and contains 256 x 256 pixels of 75 x 75 mu m(2), resulting in an active region of 19.2 x 19.2 mm(2). Each pixel contains a 12 bit counter with double buffering for continuous image acquisition. Moreover, it allows a partial readout (4, 8 or 12 bits) with corresponding frame rates up to 24, 12 and 8 kHz. The chip is designed with Hardening By Design techniques [1], to obtain high radiation tolerance from a standard commercial 0.25 mu m CMOS technology. The chip was recently received from fabrication and it is at present under test. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Synchrotron radiation instrumentation,Photon counting,Pixel detectors,CMOS electronics
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