Developments of scientific CMOS as focal plane detector for Einstein Probe mission

Wenxin Wang; Zhixing Ling; Chen Zhang; Xinyang Wang; Qiong Wu; Zhenqing Jia; Weimin Yuan; Shuangnan Zhang

doi:10.1117/12.2311922

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6 July 2018 Developments of scientific CMOS as focal plane detector for Einstein Probe mission

Wenxin Wang, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang, Xinyang Wang, Qiong Wu, Zhenqing Jia, Weimin Yuan, Shuangnan Zhang

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Proceedings Volume 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 106995O (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311922
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

China’s Einstein Probe (EP) mission is designed for time-domain astrophysics with energy band of 0.5-4 keV. The payloads of EP include a wide-field X-ray telescope (WXT) and a follow-up X-ray telescope (FXT). The field of view (FOV) of WXT is about 3600 square degrees with sensitivity at least 10 times better than traditional X-ray all-sky monitors applying collimators or coded-masks. Back-side illuminated scientific CMOS (BSI sCMOS) is the best choice for WXT after several types of X-ray detectors are investigated. In this work, we study a BSI sCMOS sensor, GSENSE400BSI developed by Gpixel Inc., which is treated as a pathfinder for the focal plane detector of WXT. GSENSE400BSI has a pixel array of 2048×2048 with pixel size of 11 μm. We have characterized this BSI sCMOS as an X-ray detector. Based on the excellent performance of GSENSE400BSI, a new BSI sCMOS device with large sensitive area of 6×6 cm² has been proposed as the focal plane detector for WXT.

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Wenxin Wang, Zhixing Ling, Chen Zhang, Xinyang Wang, Qiong Wu, Zhenqing Jia, Weimin Yuan, and Shuangnan Zhang "Developments of scientific CMOS as focal plane detector for Einstein Probe mission", Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 106995O (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311922

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