The Medipix3 Prototype, a Pixel Readout Chip Working in Single Photon Counting Mode With Improved Spectrometric Performance

Potential impact of silicon pixel detectors on structural biology

“…available for routine electron cryo-microscopy within the next few years. Hybrid pixel detectors are already in routine use but some improvements [32] may increase the performance due to better resolution and smaller pixel sizes.…”

18k Channels single photon counting readout circuit for hybrid pixel detector

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. Especially attractive for these applications are multichannel systems with a pixel detector of high granularity and readout electronics working in the single photon counting mode with a large dynamic range and one or two energy thresholds per channel (allowing the selection of photons according to their energy).…”

“…obtaining a spectrometric performance of a hybrid pixel detector [4], operating with high intensity of X-ray radiation with the possibility of high frame rate during the continuous readout; however with a single threshold per pixel [6], measuring the arrival time of photon hits [12,15].…”

Synchrotron applications of pixel and strip detectors at Diamond Light Source

“…When operating pixel detectors at high frame rate, the dead-time introduced by the read-out (3.6 ms for the Pilatus chip) becomes a limitation. Continuous acquisitions enabled by simultaneous read-write operation of developmental detectors such as MEDIPIX3 [9] will be a major improvement for time-resolved synchrotron experiments.…”