Computer Science – Performance
Scientific paper
May 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009spd....40.3302s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, SPD meeting #40, #33.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.866
Computer Science
Performance
Scientific paper
Monolithic CMOS Advanced Pixel Sensor (APS) arrays are showing great promise as eventual replacements for the current workhorse of solar physics focal planes, the scientific CCD. CMOS APS devices have individually addressable pixels, increased radiation tolerance compared to CCDs, and require lower clock voltages, and thus lower power. However, commercially available CMOS chips, while suitable for use with intensifiers or fluorescent coatings, are generally not optimized for direct detection of EUV and X-ray photons. A high performance scientific CMOS array designed for these wavelengths will have significant new capabilities compared to CCDs, including the ability to read out small regions of the solar disk at high (sub sec) cadence, count single X-ray photons with Fano-limited energy resolution, and even operate at room temperature with good noise performance. Such capabilities will be crucial for future solar X-ray and EUV missions such as Solar-C. Sarnoff Corporation has developed scientific grade, monolithic CMOS arrays for X-ray imaging and photon counting. One prototype device, the "minimal" array, has 8 um pixels, is 15 to 25 um thick, is fabricated on high-resistivity ( 10 to 20 kohm-cm) Si wafers, and can be back-illuminated. These characteristics yield high quantum efficiency and high spatial resolution with minimal charge sharing among pixels, making it ideal for the detection of keV X-rays. When used with digital correlated double sampling, the array has demonstrated noise performance as low as 2 e, allowing single photon counting of X-rays over a range of temperatures. We report test results for this device in X-rays, and discuss the implications for future solar space missions.
Janesick James
Lemen James R.
Shing Lawrence
Stern Robert A.
Tower John
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