Name: X-ray Sensor Joint Workshop - From Soft to Hard X-rays
Start: 2026-01-12T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-01-16T18:00:00+01:00
Location: ETH

X-ray Sensor Joint Workshop - From Soft to Hard X-rays

from Monday, 12 January 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 16 January 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 12 January 2026

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Turbinenhalle
09:00 Soft X-ray Detectors - Welcome and general information
09:00 - 09:25
Room: ML E12
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Anna Bergamaschi (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut) Jiaguo Zhang (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut) Simone Finizio (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
09:25 Flash Talks
09:25 - 10:30
Room: ML E12
Contributions

09:25 Detector Development at PSI - Bernd Schmitt (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:30 CSXID beamline detectors - David Burn Luke Turnbull

09:35 X-ray sensor development at SINTEF - Marius Mæhlum Halvorsen (SINTEF)

09:40 Development Activities at PAL-XFEL - HyoJung Hyun (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory)

09:45 XAPPHIRE Pathfinder: R&D towards a High-Rate Unified Detector Platform for Soft- and Hard-X-ray Imaging - Matteo Porro (Europen XFEL GmbH - Ca' Foscari, University of Venice)

09:50 Detector development activities at MAX IV - Michele Cascella (MAX IV (Lund University))

09:55 Detector activities at SPring-8/SACLA, and status of NanoTerasu, a new Soft to Tender X-ray synchrotron radiation facility - Fabienne Orsini (RIKEN Spring-8)

10:00 Sensor development at BNL - GIOVANNI PINAROLI (BNL)

10:05 Ultrasoft x-ray NEXAFS with silicon drift detectors at the VLS-PGM Beamline - Daniel Correia (VLS-PGM Beamline, Canadian Light Source)

10:10 Soft X-ray sensor developments at DESY - David Pennicard (DESY)

10:15 Activity and techical capability at FBK - Maurizio Boscardin (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

10:20 Soft X-ray Microscopy Multimodal Imaging at TwinMic – Elettra - Alessandra Gianoncelli
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Turbinenhalle
11:00 Flash Talks
11:00 - 12:00
Room: ML E12
Contributions

11:00 Soft X-ray photon counting with an n-type Low Gain Avalanche Detector - Enric Cabruja (Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM-CSIC)) Giulio Pellegrini (Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM-CSIC)) Milos Manojlovic (Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC)) Neil Moffat (Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica (IMB-CNM-CSIC))

11:05 Challenging Needs for Diagnostics for SOLEIL II - Marie Andrä (SOLEIL synchrotron)

11:10 Development of large area pixel array sensors for STARLIGHT - Qionghua Zhai Xudong JU (ShanghaiTech University)

11:15 Capillary-based Soft X-ray Ptychography for Ultimate 4D Spectro-Microscopy with Versatile Sample Environment - Boris V. Sorokin (1Universität Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany)

11:20 X-ray detector development at the High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) - Wei Wei (IHEP)

11:25 Towards charge sharing analysis for user operation at the European XFEL - Philip Pfäfflein (European XFEL GmbH)

11:30 Research programs and facilities on X-ray sensors and ASICs at SDICLab-Polimi - Giuseppe Bertuccio (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Como, IT; National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Milan Section, Milan, IT)

11:35 Detection of Low Energy Electrons Using Medipix Detectors - Rory McFeely (University of Glasgw)

11:40 Calibration of the DEPFET-based DSSC 1-Megapixel Camera' - Charles Townsend-Rose (European XFEL)

11:45 Beyond CCDs: Monolithic CMOS image sensors for soft X-ray astronomy - Thomas Buggey (The Open University)

11:50 Hybrid a-Se/a-Se and its applications - Shiva Abbaszadeh

11:55 A Generic Line Profile Model for Pixelated X-ray Detectors Incorporating Charge Sharing and Trapping - Abhay Kumar
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Canteen
13:30 Applications - I
13:30 - 14:50
Room: ML E12
Contributions

13:30 Applications of Soft X-ray Detectors in Coherent Diffractive Imaging - Tim A. Butcher (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy)

13:50 Advancing Soft X-ray Instrumentation for High-Resolution Microscopy and Imaging at SoftiMAX - Igor Beinik (MAX IV, Lund University)

14:10 Plans and Requirements for 2D Soft X-ray Detection at BESSY II - Sebastian Wintz (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)

14:30 Soft X-ray Coherent Imaging of Magnetic Textures - Felix Büttner (University of Augsburg)
14:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:50 - 15:20
Room: Turbinenhalle
15:20 Sensor fabrication and technologies - II
15:20 - 17:00
Room: ML E12
Contributions

15:20 Probing soft X-rays using Low Gain Avalanche Diodes - Ashish Bisht (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

15:40 N-on-n iLGAD for soft X-ray detection - Marius Mæhlum Halvorsen (SINTEF)

16:00 Monolithic Array of Reach THrough Avalanche photo diodes - qualification of the first prototype production - Alexander Bähr (Max Planck Semiconductor Laboratory)

16:20 Development of a Deep Junction LGAD for Soft X-rays - Francesca Capocasa (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

16:40 N-type LGADs for Particle and Photon Detection - Giovanni Paternoster (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
09:00 Sensor and detector characterization - I
09:00 - 10:00
Room: ML E12
Contributions

09:00 Development of 2nd generation of PERCVIAL Sensor and System for upgraded soft X-ray imaging - Mohammadtaghi Hajheidari

09:20 Beyond CCDs: CMOS image sensors for soft X-ray Astronomy and Beyond - Thomas Buggey (The Open University)

09:40 BSI sCMOS Sensors for Soft X-ray Applications at SOLEIL: Experience and Performance - Arkadiusz Dawiec (SOLEIL Synchrotron)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Turbinenhalle
10:30 Applications - II
10:30 - 11:50
Room: ML E12
Contributions

10:30 Laser Induced XUV Spectroscopy for Oxidation Fingerprinting of Functional Materials - Davide Bleiner (OST University & University of Zurich)

10:50 Laser-driven resonant soft-X-ray scattering using the MOENCH detector for probing picosecond dynamics of nanometre-scale order - Daniel Schick (Max Born Institute)

11:10 Recent progress in scattering and imaging experiments at the DiProI CDI end-station of the FERMI seeded FEL. - Flavio Capotondi (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

11:30 Towards time-resolved soft X-ray ptychography imaging - Simone Finizio (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
11:50 Lunch
Lunch
11:50 - 13:25
Room: Canteen
13:25 Detector Systems - I
13:25 - 14:45
Room: ML E12
Contributions

13:25 Recent progress in high resolution photon counting detectors with Microchannel Plates - Anton Tremsin (University of California at Berkeley)

13:45 Single Photon Counting at 700 eV using LGADs - Lars Erik FrÃ¶jd (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

14:05 Developments towards Soft and Tender X-rays at Dectris - Filippo Baruffaldi (Dectris AG)

14:25 FASXCAM - High Frame Rate MAPS Detector for Soft X-rays - Monika Kuncová (Czech Technical University in Prague)
14:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:15
Room: Turbinenhalle
15:15 Tender X-rays
15:15 - 15:55
Room: ML E12
Contributions

15:15 Multi-energy SXR detector to study fusion plasmas - Tullio Barbui (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

15:35 Photon-Counting Pixel Detector Designs for ITER X-Ray Crystal Spectroscopy System - Mujin Li (IHEP)
15:55 Sensor and detector characterization - II
15:55 - 16:55
Room: ML E12
Contributions

15:55 Characterization of inverse LGAD Sensors in the Soft X-ray Energy Range - Shuqi Li (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:15 Performance of LGAD-based X-/Gamma-ray Detection Systems with SIRIO Ultra-Low Noise Charge Sensitive Preamplifier - Filippo Mele (Politecnico di Milano) Gabriele Giacomini (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Giuseppe Bertuccio (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Como, IT; National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), Milan Section, Milan, IT) Iurii A. Eremeev (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Como, IT) Wei Chen (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Instrumentation Division, Upton, NY)

16:35 RIXS Detector Using JUNGFRAU with Rectangular Pixels - Viktoria Hinger (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
18:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
18:00 - 21:30
Wednesday, 14 January 2026
09:00 Applications - III
09:00 - 10:00
Room: ML E12
Contributions

09:00 Soft X-ray Detection for TR-RIXS at the Furka Endstation of SwissFEL - Eugenio Paris (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

09:20 Detectors for resonant soft X-ray scattering: current capabilities and future directions - Priyanka Ketkar (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

09:40 Soft X-ray phase nano-microscopy of micrometre-thick magnets - Jeffrey Neethirajan (MPI-CPFS)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Turbinenhalle
10:30 Detector Systems - II
10:30 - 11:30
Room: ML E12
Contributions

10:30 Development of a Front-End Stage for Future XFEL Detectors - Adele Ciavarella-Ciavarella (Politecnico di Milano)

10:50 Soft X-ray Imaging at up to 4.5 Mega-frames/s with the DSSC Camera: MiniSDD and Ultra-Low Noise DEPFET Sensors - Matteo Porro (Europen XFEL GmbH - Ca' Foscari, University of Venice)

11:10 Inverse LGAD sensors for RIXS spectroscopy at the European XFEL - Marco Ramilli (European XFEL GmbH)
11:30 Closing remarks

11:30 - 11:45
Room: ML E12

11:45 Lunch
Lunch
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Canteen

13:00 Visit to PSI and DECTRIS
Visit to PSI and DECTRIS
13:00 - 18:30
Room: ML E12
Thursday, 15 January 2026

09:00 HiZPAD - Soft opening: Registration + Coffee/Gipfeli
Registration + Coffee/Gipfeli
09:00 - 09:45
Room: Turbinenhalle

09:45 HiZPAD - Welcome: HiZPAD - Welcome
HiZPAD - Welcome
09:45 - 10:00
Room: ML E12
10:00 HiZPAD - CdZnTe: I
I
10:00 - 12:00
Room: ML E12
Contributions

10:00 Keynote: CdZnTe for applications at light sources - Garbiella Carini (Brookhaven National Lab (BNL))

11:00 CdZnTe development from a crystal grower perspective - Michael Fiederle (University of Freiburg, FMF)

11:30 Progress in the Preparation and Characterization of High-Flux CZT detectors - Andrea Zappettini (IMEM-CNR) Leonardo Abbene (University of Palermo)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:15
Room: Canteen
13:15 HiZPAD - CdZnTe: II
II
13:15 - 15:00
Room: ML E12
Contributions

13:15 Characterization of Redlen high-flux CdZnTe - Lena Ann Franklin (Cornell University)

13:45 Collaborative charactierzation of Redlen CdZnTe - Debora Magalhaes (DESY) Jonathan Mulvey (Paul Scherrer Institut) Matthew. C. Veale (UKRI Science & Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Steffen Palutke (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:45
Room: Turbinenhalle
15:45 HiZPAD - Applications
15:45 - 17:45
Room: ML E12
Contributions

15:45 Keynote: High-Z requirements and developments with Timepix4 - David Pennicard (DESY)

16:45 In-laboratory protocol for the quantitative assessment of the time-dependent response of detectors equipped with high-Z sensors under high-energy X-ray irradiation - Fabienne Orsini (RIKEN Spring-8)

17:15 Development of Multi-Energy Hard X-ray Cameras for Thermal and Non-Thermal Plasmas - Luis F. Delgado-Aparicio (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL))
18:30 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
18:30 - 22:00
Friday, 16 January 2026
09:00 HiZPAD - Perovskites
09:00 - 11:00
Room: ML E12
Contributions

09:00 Keynote: Perovskite Single-Crystal X-ray Detectors: From Low-Dose Single-Photon Sensitivity to High-Flux Operation and Radiovoltaic Power Sources. - Sergii Yakunin (ETH Zurich)

10:00 Inorganic perovskites (CsPbBr₃) as high-Z sensor materials for hybrid detectors - Raul Back Campanelli (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory - LNLS)

10:30 Single-Step Synthesis of Cs3Bi2I9 Nanocrystals for Scalable Direct X-Ray Detectors - Joydip Ghosh (Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QR, U. K.)
11:00 HiZPAD - Postersession

11:00 - 12:00
Room: Turbinenhalle

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Canteen
13:00 HiZPAD - Other High-Z sensor materials: I
I
13:00 - 14:30
Room: ML E12
Contributions

13:00 Edge-On CZT and Amorphous Selenium Detectors for High-Resolution gamma-ray and X-ray Imaging - Shiva Abbaszadeh (University of California, Santa Cruz)

13:30 Integration of TlBr film sensor to TimePix-3 for Direct X-ray Imaging - Giovanni Pinaroli (Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))

14:00 Latest update on TlBr activities - Hidenori Toyokawa (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute)
14:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:00
Room: Turbinenhalle
15:00 HiZPAD - Other High-Z sensor materials: II
II
15:00 - 16:30
Room: ML E12
Contributions

15:00 Germanium Sensors: Progress and Present Status - Abdul Rumaiz (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

15:30 On the performance of a Silicon ROIC with PbS QD’s deposition for direct conversion x-ray detection - Chun-Min Zhang (CSEM) Nadim Maamari (CSEM)

16:00 Evaluation of Different Thicknesses of Chromium Compensated Gallium Arsenide Sensors Using Photon Counting Readout Electronics - B. Wang (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, Tech University, Shanghai, China) D. Nalyvaiko (Advafab) E. Soharova (ADVACAM s.r.o.) H. Li (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, Tech University, Shanghai, China) Jan Jakubek (ADVACAM s.r.o.) Juha Kalliopuska (Advafab) N. Masuda (Advafab) P. Spisek (ADVACAM s.r.o.) Sami Vähänen (Advafab) T. Zhong (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, Tech University, Shanghai, China) V. A. Gnatyuk (Advafab) X. Lai (School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai, Tech University, Shanghai, China)
16:30 HiZPAD - Closing remarks

16:30 - 16:50
Room: ML E12