Integration of an amorphous silicon passive pixel sensor array with a lateral amorphous selenium detector for large area indirect conversion x-ray imaging applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7961, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wang, Kai ^a,b   Yazdandoost, Mohammad Y ^a   Keshavarzi, Rasoul ^a   Shin, Kyung Wook ^a   Hristovski, Christos ^a   Abbaszadeh, Shiva ^a   Chen, Feng ^a   Majid, Shaikh Hasibul ^a   Karim, Karim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amorphous selenium; indirect conversion X ray imaging; lateral selenium; passive pixel sensor

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; AMORPHOUS SILICON THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; INDIRECT CONVERSION X-RAY IMAGING; LATERAL SELENIUM; METAL-SEMICONDUCTOR-METAL STRUCTURES; MICRO-PIXEL; MSM PHOTODETECTOR; PASSIVE PIXEL SENSOR; PASSIVE PIXEL SENSORS; SILICON PHOTODIODE; XRAY IMAGING;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; FILM PREPARATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PIXELS; SELENIUM; SEMICONDUCTING SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SENSOR ARRAYS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 79955753542     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.877592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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