An ASIC for the study of charge sharing effects in small pixel cdznte X-ray detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 5 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2357-2362

  Veale, Matthew C ^a   Bell, Steven J ^a   Jones, Lawrence L ^a   Seller, Paul ^a   Wilson, Matthew D ^a   Allwork, Christopher ^b   Kitou, Dimitris ^b   Sellin, Paul J ^b   Veeramani, Perumal ^b   Cernik, Robert C ^c  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASIC; CdZnTe; characterization; charge sharing; small pixel effect

Indexed keywords

ANODE GEOMETRY; CDTE; CDZNTE; CDZNTE DETECTORS; CHARGE SENSITIVE PREAMPLIFIER; CHARGE SHARING; CHARGE SHARING EFFECTS; DETECTOR ARRAYS; FLIP CHIP; OFF-CHIP; OUTPUT BUFFER; RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORIES; SMALL PIXEL EFFECT; X-RAY DETECTOR;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CADMIUM ALLOYS; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

PIXELS;

EID: 80054070292     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2162746     Document Type: Article

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