High performance cross-strip detector technologies for space astrophysics

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 2246-2251

  Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a,b   Tremsin, Anton S ^a,b   Vallerga, John V ^b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ASTROPHYSICS; DETECTORS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FIRMWARE; IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MULTICARRIER MODULATION; PHOTONS; SOLAR SYSTEM;

ANODE STRUCTURES; ASTRONOMICAL APPLICATIONS; CENTROIDING; CHARGE SIGNALS; CROSS STRIPS; DETECTOR SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC RANGES; EVENT PROCESSING; EVENT TIMES; FRONT ENDS; FUTURE MISSIONS; HIGHEST RESOLUTIONS; IMAGING DETECTORS; MICROCHANNEL PLATES; NEW GENERATIONS; PARALLEL CHANNELS; PEAK DETECTIONS; PRE-AMPLIFIERS; RESPONSE ALGORITHMS; SEALED TUBES; SIGNAL AMPLITUDES; XILINX VIRTEX;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 48349105851     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4436595     Document Type: Conference Paper

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