ARC funded PILATUS detector commissioning

The PILATUS detector is a pixellated hybrid sillicon X-ray detector originally developed for Protein Crystallography at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). It consists of a pixellated sillicon sensor (pixel thickness 300um, size 172*172um) bump-bonded to an ASIC chip, providing amplification and digital storage. Each assembled module of the pilatus detector contains 16 read-out ASICS with 44*78 read-out channels (one per pixel). 18 such modules make up the PILATUS 1M (1 Megapixel) detector.

The goal of this project is to commission and test the capabilities of the PILATUS device for applications at the Australian Synchrotron.