WORKSHOP PAPER
Scientific, Back-Illuminated CCD Development for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
V. Suntharalingam1, J. S. Ciampi1, M. J. Cooper1, R. D. Lambert1, D. M. O’Mara1, I. Prigozhin1, D. J. Young1, K. Warner1, B. E. Burke1
1MIT Lincoln Laboratory, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA USA 02420

Abstract

We describe the development of the fully depleted, back-illuminated, charge coupled devices for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which includes a set of four wide angle telescopes, each having a 2x2 array of CCDs. The devices are fabricated on the newly upgraded 200-mm wafer line at Lincoln Laboratory. Methods used to produce the devices and present early performance results from the 100-micron thick, 15x15-µm, 2kx4k pixel frame transfer CCDs are discussed.
Publisher: IISS (Int. Image Sensors Society)
Year: 2015
Workshop: IISW
URL: https://doi.org/10.60928/6e64-j2ed
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Keywords

CCD, TESS, deep depletion, quantum efficiency,

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