PoS(TIPP2014)233 PoS(TIPP2014)233  Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Licence. http://pos.sissa.it Development of a Small Form Factor (6 cm x 6 cm) Picosecond Photodetector as a Path Towards the Commercialization of Large Area Devices Junqi Xie a,1 , Karen Byrum a,2 , Marcel Demarteau a , Jeffrey W. Elam a , Joseph Gregar a , Anil U. Mane a , Mathew Virgo a , Robert Wagner a , Dean Walters a , Jingbo Wang a , Lei Xia a , Allen Zhao a , Dan Bennis b , Christopher Craven b , Michael Minot b , Aileen O’Mahony b a Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 S. Cass Ave., Argonne, IL 60439, US b Incom, Inc., 294 Southbridge Rd, Charlton, MA 01507, US The Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector Collaboration (LAPPD) is currently developing a large-area, modular photo-detector system composed of thin, planar, glass-body modules, each with two 20 cm x 20 cm ALD-functionalized MCPs in a chevron geometry. The collaboration is working closely with industrial partner Incom, Inc. towards the commercialization of this technology. In this talk, I will describe the path towards commercialization of the 20 cm x 20 cm devices with Incom, Inc. As an intermediate step towards building a full system for making 20 cm x 20 cm devices, Argonne has also developed a small form-factor (6 cm x 6 cm) photodetector development facility consisting of a four vacuum chamber system: loadlock, bake and scrub chamber, photocathode deposition chamber, and sealing chamber. Successful thermo- compression sealing of the 6 cm x 6 cm photodetector prototypes at the Argonne development facility has been accomplished in the sealing chamber. The entire system has recently undergone a bakeout and is currently achieving an ultra-high vacuum base pressure throughout the system with photocathode fabrication underway. An overview of results from the first working 6 cm x 6 cm active area detectors based on the ALD micro-channel plate, all glass body technology will be presented as available. Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2014 2-6 June, 2014 Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1 Corresponding Email: jxie@anl.gov 2 Speaker: Karen Byrum, Email: byrum@anl.gov PoS(TIPP2014)233