3D sensors have a been successfully installed in the innermost pixel layer of the ATLAS Detector at the CERN-LHC in 2014, after 20 years of the proposal of the original idea, and are currently being considered for all the major LHC detector upgrades. In the 3D design electrodes are processed inside the silicon bulk rather than being implanted on the wafer's surface. This results in an improved...
The universe is an amazingly huge place. While humankind has directly explored Earth’s sister planets with space probes, we don’t have the means to venture beyond the solar system, and so almost all information about the universe comes from sensing light that happens our way. Astronomy is constantly striving to find better ways to sense the feeble amount of energy from distant stars and...
This paper will summarise new developments in CCD and CMOS imagers predominantly for astronomy applications.
Also in this paper characterisation techniques used by Teledyne e2v will be described. Often device performance can be optimised for different applications and these techniques can help find the best operating point.
Since more than twenty years the semiconductor laboratory of the Max-Planck Society (MPG HLL) is developing high-performing, specialised, scientific Silicon sensors including the integration of amplifying electronics on the sensor chip. This presentation summarises the actual status of these devices like pnCCDs and DePFET Active Pixel Sensors and their applications.
