3705 Development of a Custom High-Speed Large-Format sCMOS Sensor

This Call for Tender concerns the development of a custom sCMOS image sensor for the ID18 beamline, a new flagship end-station dedicated to nano-tomography in life sciences. The sensor shall provide a minimum resolution of 4k × 4k pixels with a target pixel pitch of 15 µm, a frame rate of at least 200 fps at full resolution in global shutter mode, a linear full well capacity of at least 100 ke⁻, and a readout noise below 5 e⁻ RMS. These combined requirements are not met by any commercially available sensor, justifying the custom development described here. The sensor will serve as the key enabling technology of an indirect X-ray detection instrument based on scintillator conversion and optical coupling. The sensor technology developed under this contract will form the basis for new camera systems at the ESRF with the potential to benefit other beamlines.