Charge sharing and charge loss in a cadmium-zinc-telluride fine-pixel detector array

Because of its high atomic number, room temperature operation, low noise, and high spatial resolution a cadmium-zinc-telluride multi-pixel detector is ideal for hard X-ray astrophysical observation. As part of on-going research at MSFC to develop multi-pixel CdZnTe detectors for this purpose, we have measured charge sharing and charge loss for a 4 x 4 (750 mum pitch), 1 mm thick pixel array and modeled these results using a Monte-Carlo simulation. This model was then used to predict the amount of charge sharing for a much finer pixel array (with a 300 mum pitch). Future work will enable us to compare the simulated results for the finer array to measured values. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.