Dr. Barry E. Burke Profile

Dr. Barry E. Burke

Senior Technical Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Lab

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Publications (43)

Proceedings Article | 31 August 2022 Presentation + Paper

Performance of high frame-rate x-ray CCDs for future strategic missions

M. Bautz, R. Foster, C. Grant, B. LaMarr, A. Malonis, E. Miller, G. Prigozhin, B. Burke, M. Cooper, K. Donlon, R. Lambert, K. Warner, D. Young, T. Chattopadhyay, S. Herrmann, R. Morris, C. Leitz, S. Allen

Proceedings Volume 12181, 121812A (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2630139

KEYWORDS: Sensors, X-rays, Charge-coupled devices, CCD image sensors, Spectral resolution, Amplifiers, Observatories, X-ray imaging

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SPIE Journal Paper | 26 May 2022

First results on SiSeRO devices: a new x-ray detector for scientific instrumentation

Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Sven Herrmann, Barry Burke, Kevan Donlon, Gregory Prigozhin, Glenn Morris, Peter Orel, Michael Cooper, Andrew Malonis, Daniel R. Wilkins, Vyshnavi Suntharalingam, Steven Allen, Marshall Bautz, Chris Leitz

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 02, 026006, (May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.026006

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Transistors, Charge-coupled devices, Amplifiers, X-ray detectors, X-rays, Prototyping, Analog electronics, Field effect transistors, Clocks

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SPIE Journal Paper | 24 May 2022

Development and characterization of a fast and low noise readout for the next generation x-ray charge-coupled devices

Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Sven Herrmann, Peter Orel, R. Glenn Morris, Gregory Prigozhin, Andrew Malonis, Richard Foster, David Craig, Barry Burke, Steven Allen, Marshall Bautz

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 02, 026005, (May 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.2.026005

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, X-rays, Sensors, Clocks, Amplifiers, Roentgenium, X-ray detectors, X-ray astronomy, X-ray technology, Cadmium sulfide

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SPIE Journal Paper | 2 February 2022 Open Access

Measurement and simulation of charge diffusion in a small-pixel charge-coupled device

Beverly LaMarr, Gregory Prigozhin, Eric Miller, Carolyn Thayer, Marshall Bautz, Richard Foster, Catherine Grant, Andrew Malonis, Barry Burke, Michael Cooper, Kevan Donlon, Christopher Leitz

JATIS, Vol. 8, Issue 01, 016004, (February 2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.8.1.016004

KEYWORDS: Sensors, X-rays, Diffusion, Charge-coupled devices, Spectral resolution, Electrons, X-ray detectors, X-ray imaging, Silicon, Photons

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Future high-resolution imaging x-ray observatories may require detectors with both fine spatial resolution and high quantum efficiency at relatively high x-ray energies (E ≥ 5 keV). A silicon imaging detector meeting these requirements will have a ratio of detector thickness to pixel size of six or more, roughly twice that of legacy imaging sensors. The larger aspect ratio of such a sensor’s detection volume implies greater diffusion of x-ray-produced charge packets. We investigate consequences of this fact for sensor performance, reporting charge diffusion measurements in a fully depleted back-illuminated CCD with a thickness of 50 μm and pixel size of 8 μm. We are able to measure the size distributions of charge packets produced by 5.9 and 1.25 keV x-rays in this device. We find that individual charge packets exhibit a Gaussian spatial distribution and determine the frequency distribution of event widths for a range of detector bias (and thus internal electric field strength) levels. At the largest bias, we find a standard deviation for the largest charge packets (produced by x-ray interactions closest to the entrance surface of the device) of 3.9 μm. We show that the shape of the event width distribution provides a clear indicator of full depletion and use a previously developed technique to infer the relationship between event width and interaction depth. We compare measured width distributions to simulations. Although we can obtain good agreement for a given detector bias, with our current simulation, we are unable to fit the data for the full range of bias levels with a single set of simulation parameters. We compare traditional, “sum-above-threshold” algorithms for individual event amplitude determination to Gaussian fitting of individual events and find that better spectroscopic performance is obtained with the former for 5.9 keV events, whereas the two methods provide comparable results at 1.25 keV. The reasons for this difference are discussed. We point out the importance of read-noise driven charge detection thresholds in degrading spectral resolution, and note that the derived read noise requirements for mission concepts such as AXIS and Lynx are probably too lax to assure that spectral resolution requirements can be met. While the measurements reported here were made with a CCD, we note that they have implications for the performance of high aspect-ratio silicon active pixel sensors as well.

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Proceedings Article | 24 August 2021 Poster + Paper

Radiation testing of a back illuminated, small pixel, CMOS compatible CCD

Beverly LaMarr, Marshall Bautz, Barry Burke, Michael Cooper, Kevan Donlon, Richard Foster, Catherine Grant, Andrew Malonis, Eric Miller, Gregory Prigozhin

Proceedings Volume 11821, 118211G (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594797

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Back illuminated sensors, Charge-coupled devices, X-rays, Spectral resolution, Detector development

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Charge transfer effects in a CCD with a single polysilicon gate structure

G. Prigozhin, B. Burke, M. Cooper, K. Donlon, C. Leitz, R. Foster, B. LaMarr, A. Malonis, M. Bautz

Proceedings Volume 11454, 114541C (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562677

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Clocks, CCD image sensors, Sensors, Detector development, X-ray detectors, X-rays, Electronics, Metals, Capacitance

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Presentation + Paper

Germanium charge-coupled devices for hard x-ray astronomy

C. Leitz, K. Donlon, D. Young, R. Lambert, M. Collins, B. Burke, M. Zhu, S. Rabe, M. Cooper, D. O'Mara

Proceedings Volume 11454, 114541B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2562583

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Semiconducting wafers, Germanium, Back end of line, Silicon, Atomic layer deposition, Sensors, Reticles, Hard x-rays, Back illuminated sensors

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Presentation + Paper

Progress toward fast, low-noise, low-power CCDs for Lynx and other high-energy astrophysics missions

M. Bautz, B. Burke, M. Cooper, D. Craig, K. Donlon, R. Foster, C. E. Grant, B. LaMarr, C. Leitz, A. Malonis, E. Miller, G. Prigozhin, C. Thayer, S. Allen, S. Herrmann, T. Chattopadhyay, R. G. Morris

Proceedings Volume 11444, 1144494 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561441

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Signal processing, High energy astrophysics, Sensors, X-rays, Clocks, X-ray detectors, X-ray imaging, Image sensors, Sensor performance

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

Tiny-box: a tool for the versatile development and characterization of low noise fast x-ray imaging detectors

Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, Sven Herrmann, Steven Allen, Jack Hirschman, Glenn Morris, Marshall Bautz, Andrew Malonis, Richard Foster, Gregory Prigozhin, Dave Craig, Barry Burke

Proceedings Volume 11454, 1145423 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561826

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, X-rays, Sensors, X-ray imaging, Image sensors, X-ray astronomy, Astronomy, Spatial resolution, Cameras, Device simulation

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Proceedings Article | 13 December 2020 Poster + Paper

MCRC V1: development of integrated readout electronics for next generation x-ray CCD detectors for future satellite observatories

Sven Herrmann, Josephine Wong, Tanmoy Chattopadhyay, R. Glenn Morris, Barry Burke, Gregory Prigozhin, Mike Cooper, David Craig, Kevan Donlon, Richard Foster, Andrew Malonis, Mark Bautz, Steve Allen

Proceedings Volume 11454, 1145427 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561741

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Sensors, X-ray detectors, X-rays, Observatories, Electronics, CCD image sensors, Earth observing sensors, Satellites, X-ray imaging

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Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper

Towards megapixel-class germanium charge-coupled devices for broadband x-ray detectors

C. Leitz, M. Zhu, S. Rabe, B. Burke, D. Young, D. O'Mara, I. Prigozhin, K. Ryu, M. Cooper, R. Reich, K. Johnson, M. Cook, C. Stull, S. Zarr

Proceedings Volume 11118, 1111802 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2528158

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Germanium, Silicon, Semiconducting wafers, Metals, X-rays, X-ray detectors, Particles, Sensors, Lithography

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SPIE Journal Paper | 20 May 2019 Open Access

Toward fast, low-noise charge-coupled devices for Lynx

Marshall Bautz, Barry Burke, Michael Cooper, David Craig, Richard Foster, Catherine Grant, Beverly LaMarr, Christopher Leitz, Andrew Malonis, Eric Miller, Gregory Prigozhin, Daniel Schuette, Vyshnavi Suntharalingam, Carolyn Thayer

JATIS, Vol. 5, Issue 02, 021015, (May 2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.JATIS.5.2.021015

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Charge-coupled devices, X-rays, Clocks, Electrons, Amplifiers, Spectral resolution, Silicon, X-ray detectors, Tolerancing

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Lynx requires large-format x-ray imaging detectors with performance at least as good as the best current-generation devices but with much higher readout rates. We are investigating an advanced charge-coupled device (CCD) detector architecture under development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for use in the Lynx high-definition x-ray imager and x-ray grating spectrometer instruments. This architecture features a CMOS-compatible detector integrated with parallel CMOS signal processing chains. Fast, low-noise amplifiers and highly parallel signal processing provide the high frame rates required. CMOS-compatibility of the CCD enables low-power charge transfer and signal processing. We report on the performance of CMOS-compatible test CCDs read at pixel rates up to 5.0 Mpix s − 1 (50 times faster than Chandra ACIS CCDs), with transfer clock swings as low as 1.0-V peak-to-peak (power/gate-area comparable to ACIS CCDs at 100 times the parallel transfer rate). We measure read noise of 4.6 electrons RMS at 2.5 MHz and x-ray spectral resolution better than 150-eV full-width at half maximum at 5.9 keV for single-pixel events. We report charge transfer efficiency measurements and demonstrate that buried channel trough implants as narrow as 0.8 μm are effective in improving charge transfer performance. We find that the charge transfer efficiency of these devices drops significantly as detector temperature is reduced from ∼ − 30 ° C to −60 ° C. We point out the potential of previously demonstrated curved-detector fabrication technology for simplifying the design of the Lynx high-definition imager. We discuss the expected detector radiation tolerance at these relatively high transfer rates. Finally, we note that the high pixel “aspect ratio” (depletion depth: pixel size ≈9 ∶ 1) of our test devices is similar to that expected for Lynx detectors and discuss implications of this geometry for x-ray performance and noise requirements.

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Development of germanium charge-coupled devices

C. Leitz, M. Zhu, S. Rabe, B. Burke, I. Prigozhin, D. O'Mara, K. Ryu, M. Cooper, R. Reich, K. Johnson, W. Hu, B. Felton, M. Cook, C. Stull, V. Suntharalingam

Proceedings Volume 10709, 1070908 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2310120

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Germanium, X-rays, X-ray detectors

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Paper

Oxide-bonded molecular-beam epitaxial backside passivation process for large-format CCDs

K. Ryu, C. Leitz, H. Clark, X. Chen, M. Cooper, M. Zhu, P. Welander, R. Lambert, V. Bolkhovsky, D.-R. Yost, B. Burke, J. Gregory, V. Suntharalingam

Proceedings Volume 10699, 106993P (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2311512

KEYWORDS: Semiconducting wafers, Charge-coupled devices, Hydrogen, Oxides, Silicon, Quantum efficiency, Wafer bonding, Ultraviolet radiation, Interfaces, Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, Molecular beam epitaxy

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Proceedings Article | 6 July 2018 Presentation + Paper

Toward fast low-noise low-power digital CCDs for Lynx and other high-energy astrophysics missions

M. Bautz, R. Foster, B. LaMarr, A. Malonis, G. Prigozhin, E. Miller, C. Grant, B. Burke, M. Cooper, D. Craig, C. Leitz, D. Schuette, V. Suntharalingam

Proceedings Volume 10699, 1069917 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313594

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Sensors, Amplifiers, X-rays, Clocks, CCD image sensors, Spectral resolution, Silicon

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Proceedings Article | 29 July 2016 Paper

The TESS camera: modeling and measurements with deep depletion devices

Deborah Woods, Roland Vanderspek, Robert MacDonald, Edward Morgan, Joel Villasenor, Carolyn Thayer, Barry Burke, Christian Chesbrough, Michael Chrisp, Kristin Clark, Gabor Furesz, Alexandria Gonzales, Tam Nguyen, Gregory Prigozhin, Brian Primeau, George Ricker, Timothy Sauerwein, Vyshnavi Suntharalingam

Proceedings Volume 9904, 99042C (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2231296

KEYWORDS: Instrument modeling, Zemax, Sensors, Cameras, Monte Carlo methods, Silicon, Zemax, Charge-coupled devices, Photons, Diffusion, Point spread functions

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Proceedings Article | 4 August 2014 Paper

New CCD imagers for adaptive optics wavefront sensors

Daniel Schuette, Robert Reich, Ilya Prigozhin, Barry Burke, Robert Johnson

Proceedings Volume 9148, 91485O (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2058116

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Imaging systems, Camera shutters, Wavefront sensors, Adaptive optics, Signal to noise ratio, Imaging arrays, Electron multiplying charge coupled devices, Quantum efficiency, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 24 July 2014 Paper

Development of CCDs for REXIS on OSIRIS-REx

Kevin Ryu, Barry Burke, Harry Clark, Renee Lambert, Peter O'Brien, Vyshnavi Suntharalingam, Christopher Ward, Keith Warner, Mark Bautz, Richard Binzel, Steven Kissel, Rebecca Masterson

Proceedings Volume 9144, 91444O (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2055260

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, X-rays, Aluminum, Silicon, Semiconducting wafers, X-ray imaging, Imaging systems, Absorption, Asteroids, Spectral resolution

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Proceedings Article | 14 September 2011 Paper

Radiation testing of mini-orthogonal transfer array CCDs

Beverly LaMarr, Mark Bautz, Steve Kissel, Gregory Prigozhin, Barry Burke, Michael Cooper, Vyshnavi Suntharalingam

Proceedings Volume 8145, 81450M (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.893810

KEYWORDS: X-rays, Charge-coupled devices, X-ray astronomy, Temperature metrology, Staring arrays, Space telescopes, Spectral resolution, Error analysis, X-ray detectors, Astrophysics

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Proceedings Article | 28 January 2009 Paper

Low dark current, back-illuminated charge coupled devices

R. Westhoff, B. Burke, H. Clark, A. Loomis, D. Young, J. Gregory, R. Reich

Proceedings Volume 7249, 72490J (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817051

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Clocks, Imaging systems, Bismuth, Silicon, Oxides, Hydrogen, Semiconducting wafers, Back illuminated sensors, Sensors

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Proceedings Article | 24 July 2008 Paper

Results from the Pan-STARRS Orthogonal Transfer Array (OTA)

John Tonry, Barry Burke, Sidik Isani, Peter Onaka, Michael Cooper

Proceedings Volume 7021, 702105 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.789617

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Metals, Stars, Silicon, Quantum efficiency, Logic, Cameras, Sensors, Point spread functions, Telescopes

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Proceedings Article | 26 October 2007 Paper

Mitigating CCD radiation damage with charge injection: first flight results from Suzaku

M. Bautz, B. LaMarr, E. Miller, S. Kissel, G. Prigozhin, B. Burke, J. Gregory, H. Uchiyama, Y. Hyodo, H. Yamaguchi, H. Mori, T. Tsuru, H. Matsumoto, K. Koyama, K. Torii, S. Katsuda, K. Hasuike, H. Nakajima, K. Hayashida, H. Tsunemi, H. Murakami, M. Ozaki, T. Dotani

Proceedings Volume 6686, 66860Q (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.734094

KEYWORDS: Sensors, Spectral resolution, Charge-coupled devices, Bismuth, X-rays, Radiation effects, Back illuminated sensors, X-ray imaging, Particles, Calibration

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Proceedings Article | 21 February 2007 Paper

Orthogonal transfer arrays for the Pan-STARRS gigapixel camera

Barry Burke, John Tonry, Michael Cooper, Peter Doherty, Andrew Loomis, Douglas Young, Thomas Lind, Peter Onaka, Deborah Landers, Peter Daniels, John Daneu

Proceedings Volume 6501, 650107 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.724452

KEYWORDS: Molybdenum, Prototyping, Charge-coupled devices, Epoxies, Packaging, Cameras, Staring arrays, Silicon, Logic, Ionization

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Proceedings Article | 15 June 2006 Paper

FlyEyes: integrating CCID-35 into PUEO AO system at CFHT

Kevin K. Y. Ho, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Chueh-Jen Lin, Tom Benedict, Olivier Lai, Jeff Ward, Derrick Salmon, Gerry Luppino, James Beletic, Reinhold Dorn, Pascal Puget, Barry Burke, Shiang-Yu Wang

Proceedings Volume 6276, 62761G (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.670089

KEYWORDS: Avalanche photodetectors, Charge-coupled devices, Adaptive optics, Sensors, Quantum efficiency, Wavefront sensors, Amplifiers, Epoxies, Signal attenuation, Silicon

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Proceedings Article | 6 February 2006 Paper

Development of the orthogonal-transfer array

Barry Burke, John Tonry, Michael Cooper, Douglas Young, Andrew Loomis, Peter Onaka, Gerard Luppino

Proceedings Volume 6068, 60680J (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.657196

KEYWORDS: Charge-coupled devices, Logic, Metals, Quantum efficiency, Field effect transistors, Transistors, Semiconducting wafers, Imaging systems, Video, Clocks

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