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European Space Agency detector development for space science: present and future activities
Ludovic Duvet,Marcos Bavdaz,Pierre-Elie Crouzet,Nick Nelms,Y. R. Nowicki-Bringuier,Brian Shortt,Peter Verhoeve +6 more
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In this paper, the authors report on the present and future detector development activities for the European Space Agency Science Programme (ESAP) in particular targeting large format and p-channel CCD, NIR and MWIR, LWIR wavelength ranges as well as related ASIC controller.Abstract:
We report on the present and future detector development activities for the European Space Agency Science Programme. The development of European technology in that field is a key mission enabler for the program, which requires TRL6 (ISO scale) by end of the definition phase, so called "mission adoption". This is particularly true for Astronomy and fundamental physics type missions. Current activities are in particular targeting large format and p-channel CCD, NIR and MWIR, LWIR wavelength ranges as well as related ASIC controller. For the longer term future mission plan (so called M4, M5 and L2 missions, M3 being PLATO and L1 JUICE), the extreme ends of the spectrum will be addressed. An overview of the detector status for the Earth Observation program is given in appendix, as most of the technologies are directly applicable to some extent to science missions, in particular for Planetary missions. The specific validation activities in place in the future mission preparation office in support to the space science program will be eventually briefly detailed.read more
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Flexibility of Ga-containing Type-II superlattice for long-wavelength infrared detection
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Large format array NIR detectors for future ESA astronomy missions: characterization and comparison
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TL;DR: In this paper, a test setup to characterize near-infrared (NIR) detectors has been created and a series of rigorous tests have been performed on two different detectors; one provided by CEA/Leti-CEA/IRFU-SOFRADIR, France and the other by SELEX- UK/ATC, UK.
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ESA’s CCD test bench for the PLATO mission
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TL;DR: The PLATO mission is the third medium-class mission to be selected in the European Space Agency (ESA) Science and Robotic Exploration Cosmic Vision programme as discussed by the authors, which makes use of a large format (8 cm x 8 cm) Charge-Coupled Devices (CCDs), e2v CCD270 operated at 4 MHz and at -70 C.
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Flexibility of Ga-containing Type-II superlattice for long-wavelength infrared detection
TL;DR: In this paper, the flexibility of long-wavelength Type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice (Ga-containing SL) is explored and investigated from the growth to the device performance.
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