Low noise charge injection in the CCD22

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5501, Issue , 2004, Pages 189-196

  Smith, David R ^a   Holland, Andrew D ^a   Hutchinson, Ian ^a   Abbey, Antony F ^b   Pool, Peter ^c   Burt, David ^c   Morris, David ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c E2V TECHNOLOGIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CCD; Charge injection; CTI; Proton irradiation; X ray detector

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRODES; PROTON IRRADIATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION DAMAGE; SILICON; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TELESCOPES; X RAY APPARATUS;

CHARGE INJECTION; X-RAY DETECTORS; X-RAY EVOLVING UNIVERSE SPECTROMETRY (XEUS); X-RAY TELESCOPES;

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES;

EID: 10844252260     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.551393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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