Low-energy X-ray performance of SOI pixel sensors for astronomy, “XRPIX”

Kodama, Ryota; Tsuru, Takeshi Go; Tanaka, Takaaki; Uchida, Hiroyuki; Kayama, Kazuho; Amano, Yoshiharu; Takeda, Ayaki; Mori, Koji; Nishioka, Yusuke; Yukumoto, Masataka; Hida, Takahiro; Arai, Y.; Kurachi, Ikuo; Kohmura, Takayoshi; Hagino, K.; Hayashida, Mitsuki; Kitajima, Masatoshi; Kawahito, Shoji; Yasutomi, Keita; Kamehama, Hiroki

doi:10.1016/j.nima.2020.164745

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“…where ∆E, E, F , W , σ inde , and σ gain represent the energy resolution, X-ray/γ-ray energy, Fano factor (0.12), mean ionization energy per electron-hole pair in Si (3.65 eV), energy-independent noise in rms, and pixel-to-pixel relative gain variation in rms, respectively. 19 As expressed in Eq. 2, the Fano noise, energy-independent components (e.g., readout noise), and energy-dependent pixel-by-pixel pedestal nonuniformity contribute to the energy resolution.…”

Section: Energy Resolutionmentioning

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Proton radiation hardness of X-ray SOI pixel sensors with pinned depleted diode structure

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Hagino,

Kohmura

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X-ray silicon-on-insulator (SOI) pixel sensors, "XRPIX," are being developed for the next-generation Xray astronomical satellite, "FORCE". The XRPIX are fabricated with the SOI technology, which makes it possible to integrate a high-resistivity Si sensor and a low-resistivity Si CMOS circuit. The CMOS circuit in each pixel is equipped with a trigger function, allowing us to read out outputs only from the pixels with X-ray signals at the timing of X-ray detection. This function thus realizes high throughput and high time resolution, which enables to employ anticoincidence technique for background rejection. A new series of XRPIX named XRPIX6E developed with a pinned depleted diode (PDD) structure improves spectral performance by suppressing the interference between the sensor and circuit layers. When semiconductor X-ray sensors are used in space, their spectral performance is generally degraded owing to the radiation damage caused by high-energy protons. Therefore, before using an XRPIX in space, it is necessary to evaluate the extent of degradation of its spectral performance by radiation damage. Thus, we performed a proton irradiation experiment for XRPIX6E for the first time at HIMAC in the National Institute of Radiological Sciences. We irradiated XRPIX6E with high-energy protons with a total dose of up to 40 krad, equivalent to 400 years of irradiation in orbit. The 40-krad irradiation degraded the energy resolution of XRPIX6E by 25 ± 3%, yielding an energy resolution of 260.1 ± 5.6 eV at the full width half maximum for 5.9 keV X-rays. However, the value satisfies the requirement for FORCE, 300 eV at 6 keV, even after the irradiation. It was also found that the PDD XRPIX has enhanced radiation hardness compared to previous XRPIX devices. In addition, we investigated the degradation of the energy resolution; it was shown that the degradation would be due to increasing energy-independent components, e.g., readout noise.

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Section: Energy Resolutionmentioning

confidence: 99%