Transient radiation effects in ultra-low noise HgCdTe IR detector arrays for space-based astronomy

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2657-2663

  Pickel, James C ^a,b   Reed, Robert A ^a,c   Ladbury, Ray ^a,d   Marshall, Paul W ^a,e   Jordan, Thomas M ^a,f   Gee, George ^a,e   Fodness, Bryan ^a,e   McKelvey, Mark ^a,g   McMurray, Robert ^a,g   Ennico, Kim ^a,g   McCreight, Craig ^a,g   Waczynski, Augustyn ^a,e   Polidan, Elizabeth J ^a,e   Johnson, Scott D ^a,e   Weller, Robert A ^a,c   Mendenhall, Marcus H ^a,c   Schrimpf, Ronald D ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PR and T Inc   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f EMP Consultants   (United States)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HgCdTe; IR detectors; Single event transients; Space based astronomy; Transient noise

Indexed keywords

SPACE-BASED ASTRONOMY; TRANSIENT RADIATION EFFECTS;

ASTRONOMY; INFRARED DETECTORS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS;

NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

EID: 33144478470     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.860732     Document Type: Conference Paper

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