Large-format, high-spatial resolution cross-strip readout MCP detectors for UV astronomy

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Vallerga, John ^a   Raffanti, Rick ^b   Tremsin, Anton ^a   Siegmund, Oswald ^a   McPhate, Jason ^a   Varner, Gary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Techne Instruments Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

High resolution imaging; Microchannel plates; Position sensitive detectors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; CROSS-STRIP; FAST CHARGES; FAST SAMPLING; FRONT END; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; LARGE APERTURE; LARGE FORMAT; MICROCHANNEL PLATE DETECTOR; MICROCHANNEL PLATES; PARALLEL CHANNEL; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SPACE TELESCOPES;

IMAGE STORAGE TUBES;

EID: 77957864221     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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