Techniques for minimizing space proton damage in scientific charge coupled devices

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1663-1670

  Johlander, Bengt ^c   Adams, Leonard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Siedle Fulmer Materials Technology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; PROTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES--SPACE APPLICATIONS; X-RAYS;

EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, CHARGE COUPLED;

EID: 0026388816     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.124160     Document Type: Article

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