Virus structures by x-ray free-electron lasers

A Meents, MO Wiedorn - Annual review of virology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Until recently X-ray crystallography has been the standard technique for virus structure
determinations. Available X-ray sources have continuously improved over the decades …

Future of ePix detectors for high repetition rate FELs

G Blaj, P Caragiulo, G Carini, A Dragone… - AIP Conference …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Free-electron lasers (FELs) made the imaging of atoms and molecules in motion possible,
opening new science opportunities with high brilliance, ultra-short x-ray laser pulses at up to …

Performance of ePix10K, a high dynamic range, gain auto-ranging pixel detector for FELs

G Blaj, A Dragone, CJ Kenney, F Abu-Nimeh… - AIP Conference …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
ePix10K is a hybrid pixel detector developed at SLAC for demanding free-electron laser
(FEL) applications, providing an ultrahigh dynamic range (245 eV to 88 MeV) through gain …

X-ray imaging with ePix100a: a high-speed, high-resolution, low-noise camera

G Blaj, P Caragiulo, A Dragone… - Hard X-ray, gamma …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The ePix100A camera is a 0.5 megapixel (704 x 768 pixels) camera for low noise x-ray
detection applications requiring high spatial and spectral resolution. The camera is built …

Design and performance of the ePix camera system

K Nishimura, G Blaj, P Caragiulo, G Carini… - AIP Conference …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
A second generation camera system has been developed and built at SLAC for use in
experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The system is developed around …

Analytical solutions of transient drift-diffusion in pn junction pixel sensors

G Blaj, CJ Kenney, J Segal, G Haller - arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.01429, 2017 - arxiv.org
Radiation detection in applications ranging from high energy physics to medical imaging
rely on solid state detectors, often hybrid pixel detectors with (1) reverse biased pn junction …

Design of ePixM, a fully-depleted monolithic CMOS active pixel sensor for soft X-ray experiments at LCLS-II

L Rota, C Tamma, JD Segal, P Caragiulo… - Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The LCLS-II Free Electron Laser (FEL) will produce X-ray pulses with a repetition
rate of up to 1 MHz and energies between 250 eV and 5 keV. Experiments conducted at …

Design and Characterization of a high-rate readout backend for ePix detectors at LCLS II

P Caragiulo, C Tamma, X Xu, H Adel… - 2018 IEEE Nuclear …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The high repetition rate of second generation FEL is pushing the requirements of photon
science x-ray cameras. In particular LCLS-II, planned upgrade of LCLS, will be able to …

Radiation hardness study of the ePix100 sensor and ASIC under direct illumination at the European XFEL

I Klačková, K Ahmed, G Blaj, M Cascella… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The ePix detector family provides multiple variants of hybrid pixel detectors to support a wide
range of applications at free electron laser (FEL) facilities. The ePix detectors are by design …

Studies of the ePix100 low-noise x-ray camera at SLAC

GA Carini, R Alonso-Mori, G Blaj… - 2014 IEEE Nuclear …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new hybrid pixel array detector, the ePix100, has been developed at SLAC for tender and
hard x-ray experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). It is intended for low …