Developments in large-area flat panel photodetectors with ALD glass capillary array microchannel plates

Camden D. Ertley; Alexey V. Lyashenko; Bernhard W. Adams; Till Cremer; Michael J. Minot; Mark A. Popecki; Michael R. Foley; Michael E. Stochaj; Cole J. Hamel; Satya P. Butler; Melvin Aviles; Travis W. Rivera; Oswald H. W. Siegmund

doi:10.1117/12.2530039

9 September 2019 Developments in large-area flat panel photodetectors with ALD glass capillary array microchannel plates

Camden D. Ertley, Alexey V. Lyashenko, Bernhard W. Adams, Till Cremer, Michael J. Minot, Mark A. Popecki, Michael R. Foley, Michael E. Stochaj, Cole J. Hamel, Satya P. Butler, Melvin Aviles, Travis W. Rivera, Oswald H. W. Siegmund

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Proceedings Volume 11118, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI; 111180L (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530039
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2019, San Diego, California, United States

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Incom, Inc. is now producing commercially available Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detectors (LAPPD™) usable in applications by early adopters. The first generation LAPPD™ is an all-glass 230 x 220 x 22 mm³ flat panel photodetector with a chevron stack of glass capillary array microchannel plates functionalized by atomic layer deposition, a semitransparent bi-alkali photocathode, and a strip-line anode. The photodetector is being optimized for applications requiring picosecond timing and millimeter spatial resolution and has achieved single photoelectron (PE) timing resolutions of α≤52 ps. Typical performance metrics include electron gains of 10⁷ at 1 kV per MCP, low dark noise rates (15-30 Hz/cm² at moderate gains), single PE spatial response along and across strips of 1.8 mm and 0.76 mm respectively and quantum efficiencies that are typically ≥20% at 365 nm. Changes to the “baseline” LAPPD™ are under development to optimize the photodetector for applications requiring very high spatial resolutions.

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Camden D. Ertley, Alexey V. Lyashenko, Bernhard W. Adams, Till Cremer, Michael J. Minot, Mark A. Popecki, Michael R. Foley, Michael E. Stochaj, Cole J. Hamel, Satya P. Butler, Melvin Aviles, Travis W. Rivera, and Oswald H. W. Siegmund "Developments in large-area flat panel photodetectors with ALD glass capillary array microchannel plates", Proc. SPIE 11118, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI, 111180L (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530039

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