Development of high spectral resolution CdZnTe pixel detectors for astronomical hard X-ray telescopes

Details Development of high spectral resolution CdZnTe pixel detectors for astronomical hard X-ray telescopes Development of high spectral resolution CdZnTe pixel detectors for astronomical hard X-ray telescopes

Feb 2001

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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 458, Issue 1-2, p. 585-592.

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Cadmium zinc telluride detectors (CdZnTe) offer the possibility of achieving excellent spectral and spatial resolution for compact hard X-ray sensors operated without cryogenics. These characteristics make these detectors ideal for several astrophysical applications, including focal plane sensors for multilayer hard X-ray telescopes, and in the image plane of coded-aperture imagers. We are developing a CdZnTe pixel detector and low-noise VLSI readout for use at the focal plane of the balloon-borne High Energy Focusing Telescope (HEFT). In particular, we have concentrated on achieving excellent spectral resolution in a device with 600μm pixels. Here we report results from the testing of our fully functional prototype hybrid detector. The detector (an 8×7×2mm3 single crystal of CdZnTe with an 8×8 pattern of platinum contacts on one side and a monolithic contact on the other) is indium bump-bonded to our 64-channel readout chip, which contains a charge-sensitive preamplifier, shaping amplifier, and combination peak stretcher/discriminator for each pixel. In this paper, we present results taken at room temperature, demonstrating a low-energy threshold near 5keV and electronic noise of 1.5keV FWHM at 60keV. Subsequent testing of this detector at -10°C, reported in Cook et al. [Proc. SPIE 3769 (1999) 92], achieved 670eV FWHM resolution at 60keV, with electronic noise of 340eV.

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