IDeF-X ECLAIRs: A CMOS ASIC for the readout of CdTe and CdZnTe detectors for high resolution spectroscopy

O Gevin, P Baron, X Coppolani, FÇ Daly… - … on Nuclear Science, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The very last member of the IDeF-X ASIC family is presented: IDeF-X ECLAIRs is a 32-
channel front end ASIC designed for the readout of Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) and …

Simbol-X: mission overview

P Ferrando, M Arnaud, U Briel… - … II: Ultraviolet to …, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Simbol-X is a hard X-ray mission, operating in the~ 0.5-80 keV range, proposed as a
collaboration between the French and Italian space agencies with participation of German …

The SIMBOL-X hard X-ray mission

G Pareschi, P Ferrando - Focusing Telescopes in Nuclear Astrophysics, 2006 - Springer
SIMBOL-X is a hard X-ray mission based on a formation flight architecture, operating in the
0.5–80 keV energy range, which has been selected for a comprehensive Phase A study …

Caliste 64, an innovative cdte hard x-ray micro-camera

A Meuris, O Limousin, F Lugiez, O Gevin… - … on Nuclear Science, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A prototype 64 pixel miniature camera has been designed and tested for the Simbol-X hard
X-ray observatory to be flown on the joint CNES-ASI space mission in 2014. This device is …

Micro hard-X ray camera: From caliste 64 to caliste 256

A Meuris, O Limousin, F Lugiez, O Gevin… - … on Nuclear Science, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Caliste project aims at hybridizing 1 cm 2 Cd (Zn) Te detectors with low noise front-end
electronics, in a single component standing in a 1 times 1times 2 cm 3 volume. The micro …

Monte carlo simulations of stacked x-ray detectors as designed for simbol-x

C Tenzer, E Kendziorra, A Santangelo… - … II: Ultraviolet to …, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Simbol-X is a next generation X-ray telescope with spectro-imaging capabilities over the 0.5
to 80 keV energy range. The combination of a formation flying mirror and detector spacecraft …

Performance and spectroscopic behaviour of DePFET macropixels

T Lauf, F Aschauer, S Herrmann… - 2009 IEEE Nuclear …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The combined Detector/Amplifier structure DePFET (Depleted P-channel Field Effect
Transistor) features excellent energy resolution, low noise readout at high speed and low …

Caliste 64: detection unit of a spectro imager array for a hard X-ray space telescope

A Meuris, O Limousin, F Lugiez… - … Energy, Optical, and …, 2008 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In the frame of the hard X-ray Simbol-X observatory, a joint CNES-ASI space mission to be
flown in 2014, a prototype of miniature Cd (Zn) Te camera equipped with 64 pixels has been …

Background minimization issues for next generation hard X-ray focusing telescopes

V Fioretti - 2011 - amsdottorato.unibo.it
The hard X-ray band (10-100 keV) has been only observed so far by collimated and coded
aperture mask instruments, with a sensitivity and an angular resolution lower than two …

The wide field imager of the European X-ray observatory

P Lechner, L Andricek, K Heinzinger… - 2006 IEEE Nuclear …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The European X-ray Observatory (XRO) also denoted as X-ray Evolving Universe
Spectroscopy (XEUS) mission is currently under assessment by the European Space …