Performance of small-pore microchannel plates

Details Performance of small-pore microchannel plates Performance of small-pore microchannel plates

Oct 1996

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Proc. SPIE Vol. 2808, p. 98-106, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy VII, Oswald H. Siegmund; Mark A. Gummin

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Small pore size microchannel plates (MCPs) are needed to satisfy the requirements for future high resolution small and large format detectors for astronomy. MCPs with pore sizes in the range 5 micrometer to 8 micrometer are now being manufactured, but they are of limited availability and are of small size. We have obtained sets of Galileo 8 micrometer and 6.5 micrometer MCPs, and Philips 6 micrometer and 7 micrometer pore MCPs, and compared them to our larger pore MCP Z stacks. We have tested back to back MCP stacks of four of these MCPs and achieved gains greater than 2 multiplied by 10(superscript 7) with pulse height distributions of less than 40 percent FWHM, and background rates of less than 0.3 events sec(superscript -1) cm(superscript -2). Local counting rates up to approximately equals 100 events/pore/sec have been attained with little drop of the MCP gain. The bare MCP quantum efficiencies are somewhat lower than those expected, however. Flat field images are characterized by an absence of MCP fixed pattern noise.

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