Study of silicon thickness optimization for LSST

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6276, Issue , 2006, Pages

  O'Connor, P ^a   Radeka, V ^a   Figer, D ^b   Geary, J G ^c   Gilmore, D K ^d   Oliver, J ^e   Stubbs, C W ^f   Takacs, P Z ^a   Tyson, J A ^g  

^a BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STScI   (United States)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

LSST; Overdepletion; Point spread function; Quantum efficiency

Indexed keywords

LSST; OVERDEPLETION; WAVELENGTHS;

CAMERAS; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON WAFERS; THICKNESS CONTROL;

SPACE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 33749363423     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.673393     Document Type: Conference Paper

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