Initial assessment of multilayer silicon detectors for hard X-ray imaging

Xuan Li; Pinghan Chu; Zhehui Wang; Christopher M. O'Shaughnessy; Chris Morris; Marcel Demarteau; Robert Wagner; Junqi Xie; Lei Xia; Ren Yuan Zhu; Liyuan Zhang; Chen Hu; Bernhard Adams; John Katsoudas; Yujia Ding; Carlo Segre; Thomas A. Smith; Yanhua Shih

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2019.162414

Initial assessment of multilayer silicon detectors for hard X-ray imaging

Xuan Li, Pinghan Chu, Zhehui Wang, Christopher M. O'Shaughnessy, Chris Morris, Marcel Demarteau, Robert Wagner, Junqi Xie, Lei Xia, Ren Yuan Zhu, Liyuan Zhang, Chen Hu, Bernhard Adams, John Katsoudas, Yujia Ding, Carlo Segre, Thomas A. Smith, Yanhua Shih

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Abstract

Silicon detectors with lower material budget, ultrafast readout and radiation hardness are under developments. These unique features make pixelized silicon sensors a good option for hard X-ray imaging. To verify the performance of spatial resolution and energy sensitivity of silicon sensors to hard X-rays, a two layer setup of Pixelink PL-D725MU sensors has been tested at the Argonne National Laboratory Advanced Photon Source (APS) ID-10 sector with 29.2 keV high photon flux (4.5×10⁸ to 4.5×10¹⁰ photons per second) X-rays. Better than 3μm spatial resolution and clear energy characterization have been achieved by both layers. Commercial CMOS sensors with superior spatial resolution could be used for phase contrast imaging in current synchrotrons. These studies pave the path for future multilayer ultrafast silicon sensor development with ns to sub-ns readout speeds in hard X-ray imaging at synchrotrons and XFEL beamlines.

Original language	English
Article number	162414
Journal	Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Volume	942
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.162414
State	Published - Oct 21 2019

Funding

This work was funded by the Los Alamos National Laboratory C2 program. MRCAT operations are supported by the Department of Energy and the MRCAT member institutions . This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE- AC02-06CH11357 . This work was funded by the Los Alamos National Laboratory C2 program. MRCAT operations are supported by the Department of Energy and the MRCAT member institutions. This research used resources of the Advanced Photon Source, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility operated for the DOE Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.

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Hard X-ray imaging
Multilayer
Silicon detector

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Li, X., Chu, P., Wang, Z., O'Shaughnessy, C. M., Morris, C., Demarteau, M., Wagner, R., Xie, J., Xia, L., Zhu, R. Y., Zhang, L., Hu, C., Adams, B., Katsoudas, J., Ding, Y., Segre, C., Smith, T. A., & Shih, Y. (2019). Initial assessment of multilayer silicon detectors for hard X-ray imaging. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 942, Article 162414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.162414

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