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Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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Hi all.
Update on my CMOS camera hack:- pyrolytic graphite works fine if split down, then sanded down to around 0.3mm thick.
I discovered that reducing the clock speed from 13.5 to 4 MHz increased the sensitivity by about a factor of three and allowed me to view individual particle interactions on my 'scope.
fwiw this is a B&Q camera, with the exposed chip surrounded with epoxy and a piece of PG installed about 1mm away from the chip. The chip has damage that renders it unsuitable for use as a camera (large dead spots) that strangely enough doesen't show up on the geiger images.
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That's excellent Andre! You should write up a whole report about it in the projects section.
I expect the dead spots are not 'dead' but areas of reduced sensitivity, so that the higher detection efficiency of alphas is able to lift the signal above the noise floor to the point where it can be detected.
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Sounds about right. Sadly the camera stopped working about a month later, I don't know why but suspect moisture damage to the chip. Was a gradual failure, the output stopped generating video but I could still see the signals if I biased output at +V, then it stopped entirely a week later.
Memo to self, next time use UV cure glue as it fully encapsulates the delicate interconnects.
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I've tried this before actually with a webcam, and just so you know the radiation eventually causes more and more pixels to die until it's pretty much useless...
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