Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics (eBook)

Cover 1
Contents 6
Contents of Volume B 8
Contributors 10
Preface 18
Abbreviations 19
Part 1: Electronography and Imaging Photon-Counting Systems 20
Chapter 1. A New Concept in the Development of a Very Large Field Electrographic Camera 20
Chapter 2. Installation d'une Caméra Electronique Grand Champ au Télescope Canada– France–Hawaii 30
Chapter 3. Photon-Counting Imaging and Its Application 40
Chapter 4. Interpolative Centroiding in CCD-Based Image Photon-Counting Systems 52
Chapter 5. The Imperial College System for Photon Event Counting 68
Part 2: Image Intensifiers 80
Chapter 6. Performance and Reliability of Third Generation Image Intensifiers 80
Chapter 7. Third-Generation lmage Intensifier 90
Chapter 8. A Proximity-Focused Image Intensifier for Astronomy 96
Chapter 9. Super Inverter lmage Intensifier 112
Chapter 10. A Large-Area Electron Image Multiplier 120
Chapter 11. A 512 Channel Parallel-Output Detector 130
Chapter 12. Diode Intensifier Tube with Fast Phosphor Screen 132
Chapter 13. Intensifier Solid-State Detector for Light Pulse Barycenter Reconstruction 142
Chapter 14. The Prototype MOSAIC Detector 152
Chapter 15. Design and Performance of the High-Resolution Spectrograph Sensor Subsystem 160
Part 3: Charge-Coupled Devices 172
Chapter 16. Electrographic Detectors versus Charge-Coupled Devices: A Comparison of Two Quality Panoramic Detectors for Stellar Photometry 172
Chapter 17. Evaluation of the GEC 385 x 576 Charge-Coupled Device Image Sensor for Astronomical Use 186
Chapter 18. Photometric and Spectroscopic Performance of a Thinned RCA CCD Detector 196
Chapter 19. The UCL Charge-Coupled Device Camera at the South African Astronomical Observatory 204
Chapter 20. Getting More by Taking Less: A Method of Summing up Pixels on a CCD Imager 212
Chapter 21. A CCD Camera for Cinematographic Use in Astronomy 224
Chapter 22. Low(est) Noise Reticon Detection Systems 232
Chapter 23. Reticon Detector Electronics for the Halley Multicolor Camera on the Giotto Space Mission 242
Chapter 24. Investigation of CCD-Digicon Detector System Characteristics 250
Chapter 25. An Intensified Photodiode Array Detector for Space Applications 258
Chapter 26. A Charge-Sensitive Readout Technique for Infrared Photoconductors 270
Chapter 27. Thinned Backside-Bombarded RGS-CCD for Electron Imaging 276
Chapter 28. LLL TV Imaging with GaAs Photocathode/CCD Detector 286
Chapter 29. A CCD Image Sensor Using a Glow Discharge Amorphous Si Photoconductive Layer 294
Chapter 30. An Improved 2438 Element Three-Phase CCD Linear Image Sensor 304
Chapter 31. Improved Diagnostic Radiography and Reduced Radiation Exposure Using a 1024 x 1024 Pixels Linear Diode Array Imaging System 308