Single photon imaging x-ray spectrometers using low noise current preamplifiers with dc voltage bias

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 7, Issue 2 PART 3, 1997, Pages 3383-3386

  Friedrich, Stephan ^a   Segall, Ken ^a   Gaidis, Michael C ^a   Wilson, Christopher M ^a   Prober, Daniel E ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE; ELECTRONS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

SINGLE PHOTON IMAGING X RAY DETECTORS;

X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 0031165933     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/77.622100     Document Type: Article

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