XSPA-4M

XSPA-4M
XSPA-4M Ultrahigh-speed Hybrid Photon Counting 2D X-ray Detector

Ultrahigh-speed Hybrid Photon Counting 2D X-ray Detector

For synchrotron radiation facilities

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XSPA-4M (Parallel-type)

Cutting-edge IC packaging and control-circuit design technology

The latest IC packaging and control circuit design technology makes the XSPA series one of the best performing Hybrid Photon Counting (HPC) 2D X-ray detectors in the market.

Ultrahigh measurement speed

With the latest digital control technology, a frame rate of 56 kfps (2bit) in Standard and 970 kfps in Burst Mode is achieved. Furthermore, the count rate can reach 10 Mcps (after correction) with a minimum exposure time of 40 ns.

Burst Mode enables extremely high time resolution

Enhancing the ability to observe fast transition phenomena.
 

Specifications
Sensor material   Si
Detection area 24,211 mm²
Pixel size 76 μm × 76 μm
Count rate >2 x 10⁶ cps/pixel
Energy resolution  < 20% (@CuKα)
Frame rate 56 kfps (2 bit) / 8500 fps (16 bit )

XSPA publications

  1. The Blinking of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering Reveals the Degradation Process of Protein Crystals at Microsecond Timescale, Tatsuya Arai, Kazuhiro Mio, Hiroki Onoda, Leonard M. G. Chavas, Yasufumi Umena, and Yuji C. Sasaki, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 24(23), 16640, 2023. 
  2. Functional composites by programming entropy-driven nanosheet growth, Emma Vargo, Le Ma, He Li, Qingteng Zhang, Junpyo Kwon, Katherine M. Evans, Xiaochen Tang, Victoria L. Tovmasyan, Jasmine Jan, Ana C. Arias, Hugo Destaillats, Ivan Kuzmenko, Jan Ilavsky, Wei-Ren Chen, William Heller, Robert O. Ritchie, Yi Liu & Ting Xu, Nature 623, 724-731, 2023.
  3. Robotic pendant drop: containerless liquid for μs-resolved, AI-executable XPCS, Doga Yamac Ozgulbas, Don Jensen Jr., Rory Butler, Rafael Vescovi, Ian T. Foster, Michael Irvin, Yasukazu Nakaye, Miaoqi Chu, Eric M. Dufresne, Soenke Seifert, Gyorgy Babnigg, Arvind Ramanathan & Qingteng Zhang, Light: Science and Applications 12, 196, 2023.
  4. Opportunities of Soft Materials Research at Advanced Photon Source, Mrinal Bera, Qingteng Zhang, Xiaobing Zuo, Wei Bu ,Joe Strzalka, Steven Weigand, Jan Ilavsky, Eric Dufresne, Suresh Narayanan & Byeongdu Lee, Synchrotron Radiation News 36(2), 12-23, 2023. 
  5. Nanoparticle Diffusion in Miscible Polymer Nanocomposite Melts, Nicholas F. Mendez, Deboleena Dhara, Qingteng Zhang, Suresh Narayanan, Linda S. Schadler, Alejandro J. Müller, and Sanat K. Kumar, Macromolecules 56(12), 4658-4669, 2023.
  6. pyXPCSviewer: an open-source interactive tool for X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy visualization and analysis, M. Chu, J. Li, Q. Zhang, Z. Jiang, E. M. Dufresne, A. Sandy, S. Narayanan and N. Schwarz, J. Synchrotron Rad. 29, 1122-1129, 2022.
  7. From Femtoseconds to Hours—Measuring Dynamics over 18 Orders of Magnitude with Coherent X-rays, Felix Lehmkühler,Wojciech Roseker and Gerhard Grübel, Appl. Sci. 11(13), 6179, 2021.
  8. Characterization and performance evaluation of the XSPA-500k detector using synchrotron radiation Y. Nakaye, T. Sakumura, Y. Sakuma, S. Mikusu, A. Dawiec, F. Orsini, P. Grybos, R. Szczygiel, P. Maj, J. D. Ferrara and T. Taguchi, J. Synchrotron Rad. 28, 439-447, 2021. 
  9. Use of continuous sample translation to reduce radiation damage for XPCS studies of protein diffusion, L. B. Lurio, G. M. Thurston, Q. Zhang, S. Narayanan and E. M. Dufresne, J. Synchrotron Rad. 28 490-498 2021.
  10. 20 µs-resolved high-throughput X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy on a 500k pixel detector enabled by data-management workflow, Q. Zhang, E. M. Dufresne, Y. Nakaye, P. R. Jemian, T. Sakumura, Y. Sakuma, J. D. Ferrara, P. Maj, A. Hassan, D. Bahadur, S. Ramakrishnan, F. Khan, S. Veseli, A. R. Sandy, N. Schwarz and S. Narayanan, J. Synchrotron Rad. 28, 259-265, 2021.
  11. First pump–probe–probe hard X-ray diffraction experiments with a 2D hybrid pixel detector developed at the SOLEIL synchrotron, D. Bachiller-Perea, Y.-M. Abiven, J. Bisou, P. Fertey, P. Grybos, A. Jarnac, B. Kanouté, A. Koziol, F. Langlois, C. Laulhé, F. Legrand, P. Maj, C. Menneglier, A. Noureddine, F. Orsini, G. Thibaux and A. Dawiec, J. Synchrotron Rad. 27, 340-350, 2020.
  12. Sub-microsecond-resolved multi-speckle X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy with a pixel array detector, Q. Zhang, E. M. Dufresne, S. Narayanan, P. Maj, A. Koziol, R. Szczygiel, P. Grybos, M. Sutton and A. R. Sandy, J. Synchrotron Rad. 25, 1408-1416, 2018.
  13. Evaluation of the UFXC32k photon-counting detector for pump–probe experiments using synchrotron radiation, A. Koziol, M. Bordessoule, A. Ciavardini, A. Dawiec, P. Da Silva, K. Desjardins, P. Grybos, B. Kanoute, C. Laulhe, P. Maj, C. Menneglier, P. Mercere, F. Orsini and R. Szczygiel, J. Synchrotron Rad. 25, 413-418, 2018. 
  14. Hard-sphere-like dynamics in highly concentrated alpha-crystallin suspensions, Preeti Vodnala, Nuwan Karunaratne, Laurence Lurio, George M. Thurston, Michael Vega, Elizabeth Gaillard, Suresh Narayanan, Alec Sandy, Qingteng Zhang, Eric M. Dufresne, Giuseppe Foffi, Pawel Grybos, Piotr Kmon, Piotr Maj, and Robert Szczygiel, Phys. Rev. E 97, 020601(R), 2018.
  15. High speed systems for time-resolved experiments with synchrotron radiation, Anna Koziol and Piotr Maj, Journal of Instrumentation 13, C02049, 2018.
  16. Dynamic Scaling of Colloidal Gel Formation at Intermediate Concentrations, Qingteng Zhang (张庆腾), Divya Bahadur, Eric M. Dufresne, Pawel Grybos, Piotr Kmon, Robert L. Leheny, Piotr Maj, Suresh Narayanan, Robert Szczygiel, Subramanian Ramakrishnan, and Alec Sandy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 178006, 2017.
  17. Submillisecond X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy from a pixel array detector with fast dual gating and no readout dead-time, Q. Zhang, E. M. Dufresne, P. Grybos, P. Kmon, P. Maj, S. Narayanan, G. W. Deptuch, R. Szczygiel and A. Sandy, J. Synchrotron Rad. 23, 679-684, 2016.
  18. 32k Channel Readout IC for Single Photon Counting Pixel Detectors with 75 μm Pitch, Dead Time of 85 ns, 9 e⁻ rms Offset Spread and 2% rms Gain Spread, P. Grybos, P. Kmon, P. Maj and R. Szczygiel, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 63(2), 1155-1161, 2016.
  19. 23552-channel IC for single photon counting pixel detectors with 75 µm pitch, ENC of 89 e⁻ rms, 19 e⁻ rms offset spread and 3% rms gain spread, P. Maj, P. Grybos, P. Kmon and R. Szczygiel, ESSCIRC 2014 - 40th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), Venice Lido, Italy, 147-150, 2014.