DEPMOSFET active pixel sensor prototypes for the XEUS wide field imager

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1083-1091

  Treis, J ^a   Fischer, P ^b   Halker O ^a   Harter, M ^b   Herrmann, S ^a   Kohrs, R ^c   Kruger H ^c   Lechner, P ^d   Lutz, G ^e   Peric, I ^b   Porro, M ^c   Richter, R H ^e   Struder L ^a   Trimpl, M ^f   Wermes, N ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^f POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor (APS); Data acquisition (DAQ); DEPFET; Imaging; Spectroscopy; X ray; X ray evolving universe spectroscopy (XEUS)

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ASTRONOMY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSOR; DEPFET; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY EVOLVING UNIVERSE SPECTROSCOPY (XEUS);

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 27644588455     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.852673     Document Type: Article

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