TIPP 2011 - 2nd International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics

Progress in Development of a Monolithic Active Pixel Detectorfor X-ray Astronomy with SOI CMOS Technology

9 Jun 2011, 16:00

20m

Chicago Ballroom 9 (Sheraton Hotel)

Oral Presentation Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation Astrophysics and Space Instr.

Speaker

Mr Shinya Nakashima (Kyoto University)

Description

The standard detector in X-ray Astronomy is CCD (charge coupled device) at the moment because of the remarkable imaging capability (~20 um pixel) and energy resolution at the fano limit (FWHM~135 eV@ 6keV). However, the time resolution of CCD is poor (~1 Hz); this limits the observation of bright X-ray sources such as black holes. Thus, we have been developing a novel monolithic active pixel sensor having a good time resolution (~100 kHz) with the Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) CMOS technology. We introduce the first prototype device, "XRPIX1", and its performance. The detector has the format of 32 x 32 and the pixel size of 30 um x 30 um. Each pixel has the CDS (Correlated Double Sampling) circuit for noise reduction and the trigger function for signal detection. We confirmed that the CDS and the trigger functions work properly. We achieved the energy resolution of 260 eV (FWHM) at 8 keV in a single-pixel readout mode in which the multi-sampling digital filer is applicable to eliminate the readout noise. We identified the noise sources in the readout circuit, and evaluated them quantitatively. The results are fed back to the design of a next prototype device. The thickness of the depletion layer is ~140 um. We also report the details of the other X-ray performances including the gain and the noise in the pixel-by-pixel readout mode.

Presentation materials

Slides

TIPP2011_Nakashima_fin.pdf