Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Photo-Electronic Image Devices 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
CONTRIBUTORS 10
PREFACE 16
PROFESSOR 18
Chapter 1. LLL TV Sensors with 18 mm Useful Input Diagonal Using Demagnifying Image Intensifiers 22
Chapter 2. Low-light-level TV with Image Intensifier Tubes and CCDs 30
Chapter 3. Low-light-level TV with II/CCD Coupled Devices: Relative Merits of Different Approaches 38
Chapter 4. A fibre-optically Coupled Intensified CCD Camera System 48
Chapter 5. A 3-stage 80: 7 mm Image Intensifier Combination for the CERN UA2 Scintillating Fibre Detector 56
Chapter 6. A 40 mm MCP Intensifier for Photon Counting 62
Chapter 7. Development of a CCD-Digicon Detector System 76
Chapter 8. Increased Gain of channel Intensifier Tubes by Pulsed Biasing 90
Chapter 9. Influence of Output Electron Energy Distribution of Microchannel Plates on the Resolution of Image Intensifiers 100
Chapter 10. MCP-PMTs as Ultra-fast Wide-band and Infrared-sensitive Detectors 108
Chapter 11. Performance of a Photon-counting Microchannel Plate Intensifier with Wedge and Strip Image Readout 118
Chapter 12. A Multichannel Detector for Photon Correlation 128
Chapter 13. Application of Image Intensifier-Vidicon Systems to Low-light-level Phenomena in Physics and Biology 140
Chapter 14. Cooled CCD Systems for Biomedical and Other Applications 150
Chapter 15. Utilisation Astronomique de la Caméra Electronique Grand Champ–II 156
Chapter 16. Image Recording in Electron Microscopy 168
Chapter 17. A1/2 -inch 792 (H) x 492 (V) Pixel Colour Synchro Vision CCD Image Sensor 178
Chapter 18. Thinned Rear-face Electron-bombarded FT CCDs for LLL TV Imaging 186
Chapter 19. A 2 x 2048 Pixel Bilinear CCD Array for Spectroscopy (TH 7832 CDZ) 194
Chapter 20. Development of EBCCD Cameras for the Far Ultraviolet 202
Chapter 21. Recent Developments in Solid-state Arrays for Infrared Astronomy 222
Chapter 22. Multiple-frame UV/X-Ray Picosecond Framing Camera 230
Chapter 23. Evaluation of PV001 and P-100 Tubes for Multiple-channel Streak Cameras 240
Chapter 24. Evaluation of a Photon-counting Streak Camera with CCD Recording 242
Chapter 25. A New Method for Observing High-speed Luminous Phenomena 244
Chapter 26. An X-Ray Streak Tube. with Demountable Photocathodes 254
Chapter 27. A Subnanosecond Multi-framing Camera 260
Chapter 28. A CsI(Na) Scintillation Plate with High Spatial Resolution 268
Chapter 29. X-Ray Imaging Sensor Using a CdTe/a-Si: H Heterojunction 278
Chapter 30. Low-noise Solid-state Linear Detectors for Large-field-of-view X-Ray Radiology 290
Chapter 31. An Image-intensified CCD Area X-Ray Detector for Use with Synchrotron Radiation 296
Chapter 32. Further Developments of an X-Ray Television Detector 306
Chapter 33. Development of Large-format Photon-counting Array Detectors for the Lyman Ultraviolet Space Telescope 318
Chapter 34. Image Intensifier Tubes with Intagliated Screens 336
Chapter 35. Photocathodes on Polycrystalline CsI/Na 344
Chapter 36. High Performance with Trialkaline Antimonide Photocathodes 352
Chapter 37. Relationship Between Microstructure and Photoelectric Quantum Yield (PQY) of S - I Photoemitting Surfaces 360
Chapter 38. S.20 Photocathode Stability Considerations 368
Chapter 39. Physical Model and Optimization of a Heterostructure Vidicon Target Based on Amorphous Hydrogenated Silicon 380
Chapter 40. A New Extended Infrared Vidicon 390
Chapter 41. Avalanche-mode Amorphous Selenium Photoconductive Target for Camera Tube 400
Chapter 42. An Electrostatic Deflection, Electromagnetic Focusing Pick-up Tube for High-definition Television 410
Chapter 43. Surface Temperature Measurement of Small Objects by the Microthermovision Technique 418
Chapter 44. Anti-veiling Glare Windows for Third-generation Image Intensifiers 426
Chapter 45. The Design of the Image Intensifier for the Faint Object Camera of NASA’s Space Telescope 434
Chapter 46. Evaluation of Photon-event-counting Intensifiers 446
Chapter 47. Calculations of the Electron Optics of Image Intensifiers Taking Account of Deviations from Rotational Symmetry 456
Chapter 48. Optimization of the Imaging Properties of an Image Inverter Tube 478
Chapter 49. An XUV Image Sensor for Rowland-circle Spectrographs 486
Chapter 50. Properties of Imaging Electron-optical Systems for Image Tubes 496
Chapter 51. Numerical Evaluation of Spread and Transfer Functions for Image Intensifiers with Polychromatic Illumination 504
INDEX 518