Imaging performance of a Timepix detector based on semi-insulating GaAs
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21670%2F18%3A00319854" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21670/18:00319854 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/C01034/" target="_blank" >http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/C01034/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/C01034" target="_blank" >10.1088/1748-0221/13/01/C01034</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Imaging performance of a Timepix detector based on semi-insulating GaAs
Original language description
This work focused on a Timepix chip [1] coupled with a bulk semi-insulating GaAs sensor. The sensor consisted of a matrix of 256 x 256 pixels with a pitch of 55 mu m bump-bonded to a Timepix ASIC. The sensor was processed on a 350 mu m-thick SI GaAs wafer. We carried out detector adjustment to optimize its performance. This included threshold equalization with setting up parameters of the Timepix chip, such as Ikrum, Pream, Vfbk, and so on. The energy calibration of the GaAs Timepix detector was realized using a Am-241 radioisotope in two Timepix detector modes: time-over-threshold and threshold scan. An energy resolution of 4.4 keV in FWHM (Full Width at Half Maximum) was observed for 59.5 keV gamma-photons using threshold scan mode. The X-ray imaging quality of the GaAs Timepix detector was tested using various samples irradiated by an X-ray source with a focal spot size smaller than 8 gamma m and accelerating voltage up to 80 kV. A 700 gamma m x 700 mu m gold testing object (X-500-200-16Au with Siemens star) fabricated with high precision was used for the spatial resolution testing at different values of X-ray image magnification (up to 45). The measured spatial resolution of our X-ray imaging system was about 4 mu m.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10300 - Physical sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_013%2F0001785" target="_blank" >EF16_013/0001785: Van de Graaff Accelerator - a Tunable Source of Monoenergetic Neutrons and Light Ions</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Instrumentation
ISSN
1748-0221
e-ISSN
1748-0221
Volume of the periodical
13
Issue of the periodical within the volume
January
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000423302400009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85041830406