Electro-optical testing of fully depleted CCD image sensors for the large synoptic survey telescope camera

0485396 - FZÚ 2018 RIV US eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Doherty, P.E. - Antilogus, P. - Astier, P. - Chiang, J. - Gilmore, D.K. - Guyonnet, B. - Huang, D.J. - Kelly, H. - Kotov, I.V. - Kubánek, Petr - Nomerotski, A. - O'Connor, P. - Rasmussen, A. - Riot, V.J. - Stubbs, C.W. - Takacs, P. - Tyson, J.A. - Vetter, K.
Electro-optical testing of fully depleted CCD image sensors for the large synoptic survey telescope camera.
High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VI. Bellingham: SPIE, 2014 - (Holland, A.; Beletic, J.), s. 1-17, č. článku 915418. Proceedings of SPIE, 9154. ISBN 978-0-8194-9622-5. ISSN 0277-786X.
[SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2014. Montreal (CA), 22.06.2014-25.06.2014]
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : LSST * CCD
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

The LSST Camera science sensor array will incorporate 189 large format Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors. Each CCD will include over 16 million pixels and will be divided into 16 equally sized segments and each segment will be read through a separate output amplifier. The science goals of the project require CCD sensors with state of the art performance in many aspects. The broad survey wavelength coverage requires fully depleted, 100 micrometer thick, high resistivity, bulk silicon as the imager substrate. Image quality requirements place strict limits on the image degradation that may be caused by sensor effects: optical, electronic, and mechanical. In this paper we discuss the design of the prototype sensors, the hardware and software that has been used to perform electro-optic testing of the sensors, and a selection of the results of the testing to date.

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