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spectroscopy applications at the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) Semiconductor Laboratory. Prototypes with several design variants have been fabricated. The outstanding performance of these devices has been previously demonstrated. In this paper, the development of an improved variant is presented, which applies the so-called X-type DEPFET originally designed for XEUS mission as the readout element of a silicon drift detector. The measured energy resolution for
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