论文信息 - PERCIVAL: The design and characterisation of a CMOS image sensor for direct detection of low-energy X-rays

PERCIVAL: The design and characterisation of a CMOS image sensor for direct detection of low-energy X-rays

Free-Electron Lasers and Synchrotrons are rapidly increasing in brilliance. This has led a requirement of large dynamic range and high frame rate sensors that is now being fulfilled by the PERCVIAL CMOS imager for direct X-ray detection developed at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Utilising a lateral overflow pixel and back-side illumination, PERCIVAL simultaneously achieves low-noise single-photon detection and high full well up to 107 e-, all while maintaining a frame rate of 120Hz. PERCIVAL is currently in test structure stage, and will be produced in 2 Mpixel and 13 Mpixel “waferscale” variants in 2015.

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