3DX: An X-ray pixel array detector with active edges

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1676-1688

  Parker, Sherwood I ^a   Kenney, Christopher J ^b   Gnani, Dario ^b,c   Thompson, Albert C ^b   Mandelli, Emanuele ^c,d   Meddeler, Gerrit ^c,d   Hasi, Jasmine ^e   Morse, John ^b,f   Westbrook, Edwin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b Molecular Biology Consortium   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d AltaSens   (United States)

^e BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

Author keywords

3D sensors; Active edges; Detectors; Guard rings; Insensitive edge regions; Protein crystallography; Semiconductor sensors; Silicon sensors; Structural molecular biology; Three dimensional (3D) electrodes; X ray detectors

Indexed keywords

3D SENSORS; ACTIVE EDGES; GUARD RINGS; INSENSITIVE EDGE REGIONS; PROTEIN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR SENSORS; STRUCTURAL MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) ELECTRODES; X-RAY DETECTORS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAYS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 33746333856     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.873713     Document Type: Article

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