2nd Workshop on Silicon Sensors for Radiation Detection and Quantum Applications

12 May 2025, 08:00 → 14 May 2025, 15:30 Europe/Berlin

Seminar Room (Hotel Schloss Berg)

After the first Symposium on these topics in 2021 the 2nd workshop will be held at the Hotel Schloss Berg at the eastern shore of Lake Starnberg. The main goal is to enable synergies in the field of design and fabrication of sensors and quantum devices based on silicon processs technology.

Monday, 12 May

08:00 → 08:50 Registration

08:50 → 09:00 Welcome

09:00 → 10:30 DEPFET: Belle II

Convener: Laci Andricek (MPG Halbleiterlabor)

09:00 The physics case for DEPFETs at Belle II

Speaker: Prof. Christian Kiesling (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik )

09:30 PXD/PXD2 Operation Experience

Speaker: Jannes Schmitz (Uni Bonn)

09:50 Update on backside currents and xray irradiation of test structures

Speaker: Georgios Giakoustidis (Uni Bonn)

10:10 PXD9 belle-type minimatrix characterization + preparation for PXD13 testing

Speaker: Jannes Schmitz (Uni Bonn)

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 DEPFET: EDET

Convener: Johannes Treis (MPG HLL)

11:00 The EDET Instrument – Concept and Status

Speaker: Johannes Treis (MPG HLL)

11:25 EDET Instrument Firmware – Status and Plans

Speaker: Mishal Rizwan (MPG HLL)

11:45 Laser annealing of DEPFET Matrices

Speaker: Sascha Epp (MPSD)

12:05 Nonlinear amplification revisited

Speaker: Johannes Treis (MPG HLL)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 DEPFET: PXD13 - Next Generation DEPFETs

Convener: Alexander Bähr (HLL)

14:00 PXD13 - Next Generation DEPFETs

Speaker: Alexander Bähr (MPG HLL)

14:30 PXD13 - First Measurement Results

Speaker: Sebastian Stadler (MPG HLL)

15:00 Discussion

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:30 DEPFET: Athena and DANAE

Convener: Peter Lechner (MPG HLL)

16:00 ESA's NewAthena X-Ray Telescope and its Wide Field Imager

Speaker: Johannes Müller-Seidlitz (MPE)

16:30 The DePFET Pixel Clinic

Speaker: Peter Lechner (MPG HLL)

17:00 The DANAE experiment – a direct search for light dark matter with RNDR-DEPFET detectors

Speaker: Wolfgang Treberspurg (Austrian Academy of Science)

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 13 May

09:00 → 10:30 pnCCD: Spice and FSP

Convener: Alexander Bähr (HLL)

09:00 PN-CCD Detectors in Space

Speaker: Norbert Meidinger (MPE)

09:30 FSP-TNG - pnCCD camera for the MAXYMUS experiment

Speaker: Alexander Bähr (MPG HLL)

10:00 Discussion

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 SDD

Convener: Dr Peter Lechner (MPG HLL)

11:00 TRISTAN - A Silicon Drift Detector Array for the Sterile Neutrino Search with KATRIN

Speakers: Christian Forstner (TUM), Daniela Spreng (TUM)

11:30 SDD detectors for the eXTP X-ray Mission

Speaker: Norbert Meidinger (MPE)

11:50 TAXO - A low background SDD for solar axion searches with IAXO

Speaker: Lucinda Schönfeld (MPIK)

12:10 PoliMI SDDs

Speaker: Giacomo Borghi (Politecnico di Milano)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 LGAD: Soft X-Ray

Convener: Rainer Richter (MPG HLL)

14:00 Imaging with Tender to Soft X-rays in Photon Science

Speaker: Heinz Graafsma (DESY)

14:30 Soft X-ray detection with JUNGFRAU and LGAD sensors

Speaker: Viktoria Hinger (PSI)

15:00 An Avalanche Photodiode Array with 100% Fill Factor

Speaker: Rainer Richter (MPG HLL)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:35 LGAD: Fast Timing

Convener: Rainer Richter (MPG HLL)

16:00 LGAD developments for Future Collider Experiments

Speaker: Shudhashil Bharthuar (MPP)

16:30 LGAD Sensor Development at FBK

Speaker: Matteo Centis Vignali (FBK)

17:00 Recent Developments in LGAD and Graphene-Equipped Technology at IMB-CNM

Speaker: Milos Manoklovic (IMB-CNM)

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 14 May

09:00 → 10:30 Qubits

Convener: Jelena Ninkovic (MPG Halbleiterlabor)

09:00 Neutral-atom quantum computing in the Munich Quantum Valley

Speaker: Sebastian Blatt (MPQ)

09:45 Superconducting Qubits

Speaker: Leon Koch (WMI/BAdW)

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Quantum Sensors

Convener: Laci Andricek (MPG Halbleiterlabor)

11:00 Quantum Technologies – from the physics lab towards real world applications

Quantum Technologies are an interdisciplinary field, focusing on the utilization of quantum properties of matter. Quantum Technologies of the second generation allow new applications in metrology, communications, sensing and computing. The DLR Institute of Quantum Technologies in Ulm develops precision instruments for space applications based on Quantum Technologies and brings them to prototype maturity in close cooperation with industry. An overview over the recent activities of the DLR Institute of Quantum Technologies will be presented.

Speaker: Markus Mohr (German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Quantum Technologies)

11:30 TES - Technology and Applications

Speaker: Karoline Schäffner (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik )

12:00 Magnetic microcalorimeters: Cryogenic quantum sensors for demanding applications

Speaker: Sebastian Kempf (KIT HSS)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch