Recent progress has been made in the development of silicon sensors and advanced detector technologies at PAL-XFEL.
For silicon sensor R&D, the third fabrication run of PIN photodiodes has been completed, incorporating multiple anti-reflection coating (ARC) designs optimized for wavelengths ranging from the vacuum ultraviolet to the visible region. Detailed characterization of devices from...
With the upcoming upgrade of the SOLEIL synchrotron planned for 2028, we face the challenge of providing high-performance beam diagnostics for all 29 beamlines, whose energy spectra range from deep infrared to gamma rays. Currently, around 300 diagnostic systems, comprising 15 device types, monitor photon beam position, shape, and intensity at SOLEIL beamlines, with some in operation for over...
TARLIGHT (SemiconducTor Array detectoR with Large dynamIc ranGe and cHarge inTegrating readout) is the pixel array detector developed for SHINE (Shanghai HIgh repetitioN rate XFEL and Extreme light facility), which is a hard XFEL facility with high repetition rate up to 1MHz at Shanghai. The detector is modular designed with each module consisting of a 10.5mm×2.77mm sensor bump bonded to 2×8...
X-ray imaging techniques enabled a significant advancement in the understanding of the physics driving magnetic systems, thanks to the possibility of combining element selectivity, sensitivity to the magnetic and antiferromagnetic ordering, and high spatial and temporal resolutions. Looking forward to the upcoming (fourth) generation of synchrotrons, new frontiers in spectroscopy and...
The Heisenberg-RIXS spectrometer (hRIXS) at the Spectroscopy and Coherent Scattering (SCS) instrument of the European XFEL is dedicated to 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 spectrometer uses a dispersive element and requires a...
The research activities and facilities of the Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits Laboratory (SDICLab) at Politecnico di Milano will be presented. Results and programs on silicon and compound semiconductor sensors together with the design of associated custom front-end electronics and ASICs will be summarized.
X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) facilities that can provide coherent x-ray pulses with high intensity and short duration are useful tools in diverse scientific applications. There are two XFEL facilities in Shanghai. The Shanghai soft X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility (SXFEL) has been running since 2022, and the Shanghai HIgh repetitioN rate XFEL and Extreme light facility (SHINE) is under...
