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Trap pumping schemes for the Euclid CCD273 detector: characterisation of electrodes and defects

Skottfelt, J; Hall, DJ; Dryer, B; Bush, N; Campa, J; Gow, JPD; Holland, AD; ... Burt, D; + view all (2017) Trap pumping schemes for the Euclid CCD273 detector: characterisation of electrodes and defects. Journal of Instrumentation , 12 , Article C12033. 10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/C12033. Green open access

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Abstract

The VISible imager instrument (VIS) on board the Euclid mission will deliver high resolution shape measurements of galaxies down to very faint limits (R ~ 25 at 10σ) in a large part of the sky, in order to infer the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. To help mitigate radiation damage effects that will accumulate in the detectors over the mission lifetime, the properties of the radiation induced traps needs to be known with as high precision as possible. For this purpose the trap pumping method will be employed as part of the in-orbit calibration routines. Using trap pumping it is possible to identify and characterise single traps in a Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), thus providing information such as the density, emission time constants and sub-pixel positions of the traps in the detectors. This paper presents the trap pumping algorithms used for the radiation testing campaign of the CCD273 detectors, performed by the Centre for Electronic Imaging (CEI) at the Open University, that will be used for the VIS instrument. The CCD273 is a four-phase device with uneven phase widths, which complicates the trap pumping analysis. However, we find that by optimising the trap pumping algorithms and analysis routines, it is possible to obtain sub-pixel and even sub-phase positional information about the traps. Further, by comparing trap pumping data with simulations, it is possible to gain more information about the effective electrode widths of the device.

Type: Article
Title: Trap pumping schemes for the Euclid CCD273 detector: characterisation of electrodes and defects
Event: 11th International Conference on Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD)
Location: Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Dates: 03 September 2017 - 08 September 2017
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/C12033
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1088/1748-0221/12/12/C12033
Language: English
Additional information: © 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Science & Technology, Technology, Instruments & Instrumentation, Detector modelling and simulations II (electric fields,charge transport, multiplication and induction, pulse formation, electron emission, etc), Detectors for UV, visible and IR photons, Data analysis, Space instrumentation, CHARGE-TRANSFER INEFFICIENCY
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041498
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