Recent ROB developments on wide bandgap based UV sensors

B. Giordanengo; A. Ben Moussa; J.-F. Hochedez; A. Soltani; P. de Moor; K. Minoglou; P. Malinowski; J.-Y. Duboz; Y.M. Chong; Y.S. Zou; W.J. Zhang; S.T. Lee; R. Dahal; J. Li; J.Y. Lin; H.X. Jiang

doi:10.1051/eas/0937025

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Volume 37 (2009)

EAS Publications Series, 37 (2009) 199-205

Abstract

Issue		EAS Publications Series Volume 37, 2009 Astrophysics Detector Workshop 2008


Page(s)		199 - 205
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/0937025
Published online		11 June 2009

Astrophysics Detector Workshop 2008
P. Kern (ed)
EAS Publications Series, 37 (2009) 199-205

Recent ROB developments on wide bandgap based UV sensors

B. Giordanengo¹, A. Ben Moussa¹, J.-F. Hochedez¹, A. Soltani², P. de Moor³, K. Minoglou³, P. Malinowski³, J.-Y. Duboz⁴, Y.M. Chong⁵, Y.S. Zou⁵, W.J. Zhang⁵, S.T. Lee⁵, R. Dahal⁶, J. Li⁶, J.Y. Lin⁶ and H.X. Jiang⁶

¹ Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), Circular Avenue 3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
² Institut d'Électronique, de Microlectronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN), 59652 Villeneuve dAsq, France
³ IMEC, Kepeldreef 75, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
⁴ CRHEA-CNRS, 1 rue Bernard Gregory, Sophia Antipolis, 06560 Valbonne, France
⁵ Center of Super-Diamond and Advanced Films (COSDAF) and Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
⁶ Department of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2601, USA

Corresponding author: bgiorda@oma.be

Abstract

The next ESA spatial mission planned to study the Sun, Solar Orbiter (SO), necessitates very innovative EUV detectors. The commonly used silicon detectors suffer important limitations mainly in terms of UV robustness and dark current level. An alternative comes from diamond or III-nitride materials. In these materials, the radiation hardness, solar blindness and dark current are improved due to their wide bandgap. This paper presents the new developments on wide bandgap materials at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). We present also the LYRA instrument, the BOLD project, and the EUI instrument suite.