Development Status of Microchannel Plate Photomultipliers
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 24 (1), 270-275
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.1977.4328688
Abstract
A microchannel plate (MCP) has several hundred thousand channels, each of which functions as an electron multiplier. A photomultiplier can be constructed by using a photocathode, MCP and an anode. The overall performance is expected to be superior to the best available photomultipliers. Gains of 103 - 107 can be obtained with timing and spatial resolutions of 100 psec and 25 μm respectively. Two dimentional readouts are possible. A review of the applications and development status of this device is presented.Keywords
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