The wide field imager of the european X-ray observatory

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1595-1604

  Lechner, Peter ^a,d   Andricek, Ladislav ^b,d   Heinzinger, Klaus ^a,d   Herrmann, Sven ^c,d   Kimmel, Nils ^c,d   Lauf, Thomas ^c,d   Lutz, Gerhard ^b,d   Richter, Rainer H ^b,d   Porro, Matteo ^c,d   Schaller, Gerhard ^c,d   Schnecke, Martina ^b,d   Schopper, Florian ^c,d   Soltau, Heike ^a,d   Strüder, Lothar ^c,d   Treis, Johannes ^c,d   Wölfel, Stefan ^c,d   Zhang, Chen ^c,d,e  

^a PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^d MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGE SENSORS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TELESCOPES; X RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ENERGY RESOLUTION; FIELD IMAGERS; OPERATION MODES;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 38649093372     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354203     Document Type: Conference Paper

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