Microchannel plates: Recent advances in performance

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6686, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Siegmund, Oswald ^a   Vallerga, John ^a   Tremsin, Anton ^a   McPhate, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector; Microchannel plate; Photocathode; Photon counting; Quantum detection efficiency

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

MICROCHANNEL PLATES; PATTERN NOISE; PHOTON COUNTING; QUANTUM DETECTION EFFICIENCY;

MICROCHANNELS;

EID: 42249092689     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.740215     Document Type: Conference Paper

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