Conveners
Detector Systems - II
- Bernd Schmitt (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
New X-Ray pixel detectors are required to satisfy the challenging requirements from X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) sources, such as high frame rates, wide dynamic range, and low noise for single-photon sensitivity.
The European XFEL is capable of emitting ultrashort X-ray flashes 27,000 times per second, delivering brilliance that is a billion times greater than conventional X-ray...
The DSSC camera system was developed for soft X-ray photon science applications in the 0.25–6 keV energy range at the European XFEL in Germany. Two sensor implementations are available: a 1-megapixel camera with MiniSDD sensors, delivered in 2019, and a recently completed version equipped with DEPFET active pixels. The first DSSC camera, based on MiniSDD pixels, has been successfully used for...
The Spectroscopy and Coherent Scattering (SCS) instrument at the European XFEL is equipped with the Heisenberg-RIXS spectrometer (hRIXS), capable of performing resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) measurements in the time domain, with time and energy resolution approaching the Heisenberg limit imposed by the uncertainty relations [1, 2]. The unique pulse delivery structure of the...
The FSP camera System is the first 36 µm, 1 MPixel pnCCD camera system developed for use in X-ray microscopes.
The camera system is a based on a fully depleted, backside illuminated 1 k x 2 k pnCCD. Standard use case is the split frame, framestore operation providing a field of view of 1k x 1k pixels of 36 µm size. Depending on the target noise requirement, framerates of 400 Hz can be...
