activity
20202023
collaborators

5 papers

astro-ph.IM2023

Tuning of Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to improve low energy threshold of future Hard X-ray Imaging Detectors

Daniel P. Violette, Branden Allen, Jaesub Hong +2

Detector commanding, processing and readout of spaceborne instrumentation is often accomplished with Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs). The ASIC designed for the Nuc…

astro-ph.IM2023

Imaging effects due to pixel distortions in CdZnTe (CZT) detectors -- results from the HREXI Calibration Facility (HCF)

Arkadip Basak, Branden Allen, Jaesub Hong +2

ProtoEXIST2 (P2) was a prototype imaging X-ray detector plane developed for wide-field Time Domain Astrophysics (TDA) in the 5 - 200 keV energy band. It was composed of an 8 $\time…

astro-ph.IM2022

Testing Station for Fast Screening of Through Silicon Via (TSV)-enabled Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for Hard X-ray Imaging Detectors

Daniel P. Violette, Branden Allen, Jaesub Hong +2

Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are used in space-borne instruments for signal processing and detector readout. The electrical interface of these ASICs to frontend…

astro-ph.IM2021

Proof of Concept for Through Silicon Vias (TSVs) in Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) for Hard X-ray Imaging Detectors

Jaesub Hong, Jonathan Grindlay, Branden Allen +6

Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are commonly used to efficiently process the signals from sensors and detectors in space. Wire bonding is a space qualified techniq…

astro-ph.IM2020

HCF (HREXI Calibration Facility): Mapping out sub-pixel level responses from high resolution Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) imaging X-ray detectors

Arkadip Basak, Branden Allen, Jaesub Hong +2

The High Resolution Energetic X-Ray Imager (HREXI) CZT detector development program at Harvard is aimed at developing tiled arrays of finely pixelated CZT detectors for use in wide…