The XEUS Hard X-ray Camera

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5165, Issue , 2004, Pages 37-44

  Budtz Jorgensen C ^a   Takahashi, T ^b   Piro, L ^c   Kuvvetli, I ^a   Holland, A ^d   Lumb, D ^e   De Korte, P ^f  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c IAS   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^f SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CdTe; CdZnTe; Focal plane detector; Hard X ray camera; Semiconductor detectors; X ray astronomy

Indexed keywords

CDZNTE; FOCAL PLANE DETECTORS; HARD X RAY CAMERAS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; X RAY ASTRONOMY;

CAMERAS; GALAXIES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADIATION DETECTORS; SPACE RESEARCH; SPECTROMETERS; X RAYS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 1942454832     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.530904     Document Type: Conference Paper

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