TY  - JOUR
A1  - Abboud, Ali
A1  - Send, Sebastian
A1  - Pashniak, N.
A1  - Leitenberger, Wolfram
A1  - Ihle, Sebastian
A1  - Huth, M.
A1  - Hartmann, Robert
A1  - Strüder, Lothar
A1  - Pietsch, Ullrich
T1  - Sub-pixel resolution of a pnCCD for X-ray white beam applications
JF  - Journal of instrumentation
N2  - A new approach to achieve sub-pixel spatial resolution in a pnCCD detector with 75 x 75 mu m(2) pixel size is proposed for X-ray applications in single photon counting mode. The approach considers the energy dependence of the charge cloud created by a single photon and its split probabilities between neighboring pixels of the detector based on a rectangular model for the charge cloud density. For cases where the charge of this cloud becomes distributed over three or four pixels the center position of photon impact can be reconstructed with a precision better than 2 mu m. The predicted charge cloud sizes are tested at selected X-ray fluorescence lines emitting energies between 6.4 keV and 17.4 keV and forming charge clouds with size (rms) varying between 8 mu m and 10 mu m respectively. The 2 mu m enhanced spatial resolution of the pnCCD is verified by means of an x-ray transmission experiment throughout an optical grating.
KW  - Solid state detectors
KW  - Interaction of radiation with matter
KW  - Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc)
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05005
SN  - 1748-0221
VL  - 8
IS  - 3
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  -