Radiation detector assembly

US10283557B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Biju Jacob · Niskayuna, US
• Habib Vafi · Brookfield, US
• Brian David Yanoff · Niskayuna, US
• Jeffery Jon Shaw · Ballston Lake, US
• Jianjun Guo · Ballston Spa, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 31, 2015
• Grant date: May 7, 2019
• Expiry date: Sep 2, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10F39/806
• WIPO field: Environmental technology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Various approaches are discussed for using four-side buttable CMOS tiles to fabricate detector panels, including large-area detector panels. Fabrication may utilize pads and interconnect structures formed on the top or bottom of the CMOS tiles. Electrical connection and readout may utilize readout and digitization circuitry provided on the CMOS tiles themselves such that readout of groups or sub-arrays of pixels occurs at the tile level, while tiles are then readout at the detector level such that readout operations are tiered or multi-level.