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These features of the SOIPIX-PDD lead to low read noise, resulting high X-ray energy resolution and stable operation of the pixel. The back-gate surface pinning structure using neutralized p-well at the back-gate surface and depleted n-well underneath the p-well for all the pixel area other than the charge sensing node is also essential for preventing hole injection from the p-well by making the potential barrier to hole, reducing dark current from the Si-SiO2 interface and creating lateral drift field to gather signal electrons in the pixel area into the small charge sensing node. A prototype chip using 0.2 \u03bcm SOI technology shows very low readout noise of 11.0 e\u2212rms, low dark current density of 56 pA\/cm2 at \u221235 \u00b0C and the energy resolution of 200 eV(FWHM) at 5.9 keV and 280 eV (FWHM) at 13.95 keV.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18010027","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,26]],"date-time":"2017-12-26T03:06:38Z","timestamp":1514257598000},"page":"27","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["A Low-Noise X-ray Astronomical Silicon-On-Insulator Pixel Detector Using a Pinned Depleted Diode Structure"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Hiroki","family":"Kamehama","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Information and Communication Systems Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College, Okinawa 905-2171, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shoji","family":"Kawahito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sumeet","family":"Shrestha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Syunta","family":"Nakanishi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Keita","family":"Yasutomi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka 432-8011, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ayaki","family":"Takeda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Applied Physics and Electronic Engineering, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Takeshi","family":"Tsuru","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1454-2287","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yasuo","family":"Arai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"23","DOI":"10.1093\/pasj\/59.sp1.S23","article-title":"X-ray imaging spectrometer (XIS) on board Suzaku","volume":"59","author":"Koyama","year":"2015","journal-title":"Publ. 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