Hard X-ray imager for the NeXT mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Nakazawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Fukazawa, Yasushi ^b   Kamae, Tuneyoshi ^c   Kataoka, Jun ^d   Kokubun, Motohide ^e   Makishima, Kazuo ^e,f   Mizuno, Tsunefumi ^b   Murakami, Toshio ^g   Nomachi, Masaharu ^h   Tajima, Hiroyasu ^c   Takahashi, Tadayuki ^a,e   Tashiro, Makoto ⁱ   Tamagawa, Toru ^c   Terada, Yukikatsu ^f   Watanabe, Shin ^a   Yamaoka, Kazutaka ^j   Yonetoku, Daisuke ^g  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f RIKEN   (Japan)

^g KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j AOYAMA GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

CdTe; DSSD; Hard X ray; X ray Astronomy

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MIRRORS; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; X RAYS;

CDTE; DSSD; HARD X-RAYS; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 33748993428     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.670674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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