Interpreting fitting parameters of temperature dependence of dark currents in some CCDs

Abstract

The experimental results concerning the temperature dependence of the dark currents in some charge-coupled devices (CCDs) were analyzed. It was found that the used theoretical model allows: (i) the evaluation of the lowest limit of experimental errors (involving the systematic ones), (ii) the study of Meyer-Neldel relations, pointing out the high correlation of diffusion dark currents with the energy-gap Eg, unlike the corresponding weak correlation of depletion dark currents (iii) rather accurate assignments of the obtained values of deep-level traps energies to some specific impurities