The latest developments of high gain Si microchannel plates

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4854, Issue , 2002, Pages 215-224

  Tremsin, Anton S ^a   Vallerga, John V ^a   Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a   Beetz, Charles P ^b   Boerstler, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NanoSciences Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution imaging; Microchannel plates; Position sensitive detectors

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; PHOTOCATHODES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

FLAT-SUBSTRATE DIAMOND PHOTOCATHODES; FULL-FIELD ILLUMINATION IMAGES; HIGH GAIN PHOTON COUNTING IMAGING DETECTOR; MICROCHANNEL PLATES; OPAQUE DIAMOND PHOTOCATHODE; POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0038532373     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.463766     Document Type: Conference Paper

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