GLAS-PPE/2008-27

X-ray detection with 3D Medipix2 devices

C. Fleta(1), D. Pennicard(1), R. Bates(1), V. O'Shea(1), C. Parkes(1), M. Lozano(2), G. Pellegrini(2), J. Marchal(3), N. Tartoni(3)

(1) University of Glasgow, Kelvin Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
(2) Centro Nacional de Microelectronica (CNM-IMB, CSIC), 08193 Barcelona, Spain
(3) Diamond Light Source Ltd, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, UK, OX11 0DE

A set of double-sided 3D silicon detectors have been fabricated, bump bonded to single-photon-counting Medipix2 readout chips, and tested using X-ray sources. When tested with monochromatic X-rays, the 3D detectors show reduced charge sharing compared to standard planar pixel detectors.

10th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors (IWORID)
29 June - 3 July 2008, Helsinki, Finland.

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