Title :
Radiation effects in the LUPA4000 CMOS image sensor for space applications
Author :
Rojas, Luis Gomez ; Chang, Mark ; Hopkinson, Gordon ; Duvet, Ludovic
Author_Institution :
Surrey Satellite Technol. Ltd., Sevenoaks, UK
Abstract :
Cobalt60, heavy ion and proton irradiations of the LUPA4000 2048×2048 pixel CMOS image sensor were performed to assess the performance for ESA´s proposed Solar Orbiter mission. Performance is acceptable up to at least 20 krad(Si).
Keywords :
CMOS image sensors; radiation effects; Cobalt60 irradiation; ESA performance; LUPA4000 pixel CMOS image sensor; heavy ion irradiation; proton irradiation; radiation effect; solar orbiter mission; space application; Annealing; Charge measurement; Noise; Noise measurement; Power measurement; Radiation effects; Time measurement; Image sensors; radiation effects; satellite applications;
Conference_Titel :
Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), 2011 12th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sevilla
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0585-4
DOI :
10.1109/RADECS.2011.6131324
