A novel way of single optical photon detection: Beating the 1/f noise limit with ultra high resolution DEPFET-RNDR devices

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1311-1318

  Wölfel, Stefan ^b   Herrmann, Sven ^b   Lechner, Peter ^c   Lutz, Gerhard ^c   Porro, Matteo ^a,b   Richter, Rainer H ^d   Strüder, Lothar ^b   Treis, Johannes ^b  

^a IEEE

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

^d MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active pixel sensor; DEPFET; Low noise readout; Repetitive non destructive readout (RNDR); Single optical photon detection; Sub electron noise

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ACTIVE PIXEL SENSORS; LOW NOISE READOUT; REPETITIVE NON DESTRUCTIVE READOUT (RNDR); SINGLE OPTICAL PHOTON DETECTION; SUB-ELECTRON NOISE;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 34548104300     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.901225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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