Delta-Doped Hybrid Advanced Detector

The delta-doped hybrid advanced detector is a developmental integrated electronic imaging and detecting circuit designed to be sensitive to (1) charged particles with kinetic energies ranging from hundreds through millions of electron volts and (2) photons ranging from visible light to x rays. Heretofore, the lower kinetic-energy limit of detectability of charged particles has been about 10 keV. To extend the limit downward to hundreds of electron volts, the design of the delta-doped hybrid advanced detector calls for a combination of features from several recent lines of development of detector and readout circuits.