Gallium nitride photocathode development for imaging detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7021, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a   Tremsin, Anton S ^a   Vallerga, John V ^a   McPhate, Jason B ^a   Hull, Jeffrey S ^a   Malloy, James ^a   Dabiran, Amir M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SVT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

Detector; Gallium nitride; Microchannel plate; Photocathode.; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

ALGAN; CLOSE PROXIMITY; DELAY LINE READOUT; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; HIGH STABILITY; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; IMAGING DETECTOR; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MICROCHANNEL PLATE; OUT OF BAND; PHOTON COUNTING; PRELIMINARY DATA; QUARTZ SUBSTRATE; RECENT PROGRESS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSMISSION MODE;

ASTROPHYSICS; DETECTORS; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; INFRARED DETECTORS; MICROCHANNELS; OXIDE MINERALS; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTONS; QUARTZ; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 66749108694     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.790076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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