Characterisation of the Medipix3 detector for 60 and 80 keV electrons

Ultramicroscopy

Volumn 182, Issue , 2017, Pages 44-53

  Mir, J A ^a   Clough, R ^a   MacInnes, R ^b   Gough, C ^b   Plackett, R ^a   Shipsey, I ^a   Sawada, H ^a,d,e   MacLaren, I ^b   Ballabriga, R ^c   Maneuski, D ^b   O'Shea, V ^b   McGrouther, D ^b   Kirkland, A I ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

^d DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

^e Silver Court Watchmead Welwyn Garden City   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charge summing mode; DQE; Medipix3; Nyquist frequency; Single pixel mode; TEM, MTF

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MODULATION; PIXELS; READOUT SYSTEMS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CHARGE SUMMING MODE; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; HYBRID PIXEL DETECTORS; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; MEDIPIX3; NYQUIST FREQUENCY; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SINGLE PIXEL;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; EXPOSURE; IMAGING; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ARTICLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 85021114114     PISSN: 03043991     EISSN: 18792723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.06.010     Document Type: Article

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