Progress with PN-CCDs for the XMM satellite mission

Heinrich W. Braeuninger; D. Hauff; Peter Lechner; Gerhard Lutz; W. Kink; Norbert Meidinger; Gerd Metzner; Peter Predehl; Claus Reppin; Lothar Strueder; Joachim E. Truemper; Eckhard Kendziorra; Ruediger Staubert; Veljko Radeka; Pavel Rehak; S. Rescia; Giuseppe Bertuccio; Elena Gatti; Antonio Longoni; Marco Sampietro; Nicola Findeis; Peter Holl; Josef Kemmer; Christoph von Zanthier

doi:10.1117/12.48351

1 October 1991 Progress with PN-CCDs for the XMM satellite mission

Heinrich W. Braeuninger, D. Hauff, Peter Lechner, Gerhard Lutz, W. Kink, Norbert Meidinger, Gerd Metzner, Peter Predehl, Claus Reppin, Lothar Strueder, Joachim E. Truemper, Eckhard Kendziorra, Ruediger Staubert, Veljko Radeka, Pavel Rehak, S. Rescia, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Elena Gatti, Antonio Longoni, Marco Sampietro, Nicola Findeis, Peter Holl, Josef Kemmer, Christoph von Zanthier

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Proceedings Volume 1549, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy II; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.48351
Event: San Diego, '91, 1991, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

PN-CCDs are being developed as focal plane detectors for ESA's X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite mission (XMM), to be launched at the end of this century. As a part of the European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) the pn-CCDs will convert the incoming X-ray radiation with high quantum efficiency, low readout noise, excellent background rejection, timing in the microsec regime, radiation tolerance up to several hundreds of krads and a position resolution tailored according to the angular resolution of the telescope. The goal of our laboratorial efforts for this mission is to fabricate a monolithic pn-CCD of an active area of 6 x 6 sq cm having 768 on-chip JFET amplifiers located at the end of each CCD line. It is the aim of this contribution to report on the ongoing work of the pn-CCD system. This article focuses on the position resolution capabilities of fully depleted pn-CCDs, some recent results in the noise analysis and preliminary results on 10 MeV proton damage.

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Heinrich W. Braeuninger, D. Hauff, Peter Lechner, Gerhard Lutz, W. Kink, Norbert Meidinger, Gerd Metzner, Peter Predehl, Claus Reppin, Lothar Strueder, Joachim E. Truemper, Eckhard Kendziorra, Ruediger Staubert, Veljko Radeka, Pavel Rehak, S. Rescia, Giuseppe Bertuccio, Elena Gatti, Antonio Longoni, Marco Sampietro, Nicola Findeis, Peter Holl, Josef Kemmer, and Christoph von Zanthier "Progress with PN-CCDs for the XMM satellite mission", Proc. SPIE 1549, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy II, (1 October 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.48351

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