Sub-pixel resolution of a pnCCD for X-ray white beam applications
- 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.
Author details: | Ali Abboud, Sebastian Send, N. Pashniak, Wolfram LeitenbergerGND, Sebastian IhleORCiDGND, M. Huth, Robert Hartmann, Lothar Strüder, Ullrich Pietsch |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/8/05/P05005 |
ISSN: | 1748-0221 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of instrumentation |
Publisher: | IOP Publ. Ltd. |
Place of publishing: | Bristol |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2013 |
Publication year: | 2013 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields, charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc); Interaction of radiation with matter; Solid state detectors |
Volume: | 8 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 17 |
Funding institution: | BMBF [05K10PSB] |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
Peer review: | Referiert |