Gallium nitride photocathodes for imaging photon counters

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7732, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Siegmund, Oswald H W ^a   Hull, Jeffrey S ^a   Tremsin, Anton S ^a   McPhate, Jason B ^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

ACTIVE AREA; ALN; BARRIER LAYERS; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; LONG WAVELENGTH; MICROCHANNEL PLATE; MICROCHANNEL PLATE DETECTOR; OPTIMIZATION PARAMETER; OUT OF BAND; PHOTON COUNTERS; PHOTON COUNTING; SAPPHIRE SUBSTRATES;

CESIUM; DETECTORS; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; GALLIUM NITRIDE; GAMMA RAYS; IMAGE STORAGE TUBES; MICROCHANNELS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOCATHODES; PHOTOELECTRICITY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SPACE TELESCOPES; SURFACE CLEANING;

GALLIUM ALLOYS;

EID: 77957869684     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.857863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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