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16 December 1993 MCP readout for the AXAF-I grating spectrometer
Almus T. Kenter, Richard E. Goddard, Joaquim J. Gomes, Joshua Lessing, Stephen S. Murray, Randall W. Moore, Rachel K. Roll, M. Valenza, Martin V. Zombeck
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Abstract
The low energy grating readout for the AXAF-I mission will be implemented with microchannel plates in conjunction with a novel semi-solid substrate strip charge detector. One axis of the charge detector consists of a conventional wire grid. The other axis consists of charge pickup strips formed on a ceramic substrate. This configuration allows the construction of a three segment detector with the approximate curvature of the Rowland circle. A prototype detector has been built and tested. Spatial resolution is commensurate with conventional crossgrid detectors (< 25 micrometers FWHM).
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Almus T. Kenter, Richard E. Goddard, Joaquim J. Gomes, Joshua Lessing, Stephen S. Murray, Randall W. Moore, Rachel K. Roll, M. Valenza, and Martin V. Zombeck "MCP readout for the AXAF-I grating spectrometer", Proc. SPIE 2009, X-Ray Detector Physics and Applications II, (16 December 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.164748
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

Microchannel plates

Prototyping

X-rays

Image resolution

Spectroscopy

Amplifiers

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