Design and characterisation of the new CIS115 sensor for JANUS, the high resolution camera on JUICE

Matthew Soman; Andrew D. Holland; Konstantin D. Stefanov; Jason P. Gow; Mark Leese; Jérôme Pratlong; Peter Turner

doi:10.1117/12.2056810

23 July 2014 Design and characterisation of the new CIS115 sensor for JANUS, the high resolution camera on JUICE

Matthew Soman, Andrew D. Holland, Konstantin D. Stefanov, Jason P. Gow, Mark Leese, Jérôme Pratlong, Peter Turner

Proceedings Volume 9154, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VI; 915407 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056810
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2014, Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

JUICE, the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, is a European Space Agency L-class mission destined for the Jovian system. Due for launch in 2022, it will begin a science phase after its transit to Jupiter that will include detailed investigations of three of the Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. JUICE will carry payloads to characterise the Jovian environments, divided into in situ, geophysical and remote sensing packages. A key instrument in the remote sensing package is JANUS, an optical camera operating over a wavelength range of 350 nm to 1064 nm. JANUS will be used to study the external layers of Jupiter’s atmosphere, the ring system and the planetary bodies. To achieve the science goals, resolutions of better than 5 m per pixel are required for the highest resolution observations during the 200 km altitude orbit of Ganymede, whilst the system is operated with a signal to noise ratio of better than 100. Jupiter’s magnetic field is a dominant object in the solar system, trapping electrons and other charged particles leading to the radiation environment around Jupiter being very hostile, especially in the regions closest to Jupiter in the Ganymede orbit. The radiation tolerance of the focal plane detector in JANUS is therefore a major concern and radiation testing is vital to confirm its expected performance after irradiation will meet requirements set by the science goals. JANUS will be using a detector from e2v technologies plc, the CMOS Imaging Sensor 115 (CIS115), which is a device manufactured using 0.18 μm Imaging CMOS Process with a 2000 by 1504 pixel array each 7 μm square. The pixels have a 4T pinned photodiode pixel architecture, and the array is read out through four differential analogue outputs. This paper describes the preliminary characterisation of the CIS115, and results obtained with the CIS107 precursor sensor.

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Matthew Soman, Andrew D. Holland, Konstantin D. Stefanov, Jason P. Gow, Mark Leese, Jérôme Pratlong, and Peter Turner "Design and characterisation of the new CIS115 sensor for JANUS, the high resolution camera on JUICE", Proc. SPIE 9154, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy VI, 915407 (23 July 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2056810

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