Detectors: Diamond dynodes create a new breed of photon detectors

    Sept. 1, 2008
    The attractive properties of diamond films—used as dynode materials requiring few gain stages—enable the development of micromachined, large-area, low-noise photon-counting detector arrays in which each pixel is equivalent to a miniaturized photomultiplier tube.
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    The attractive properties of diamond films—used as dynode materials requiring few gain stages—enable the development of micromachined, large-area, low-noise photon-counting detector arrays in which each pixel is equivalent to a miniaturized photomultiplier tube. This application of diamond will provide a fundamental enabling technology for the next generation of three-dimensional photon- and particle-counting detectors.
    JON S. LAPINGTON, PAUL. W. MAY, NEIL A. FOX, JON HOWORTH, AND JAMES MILNES
    www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/336816

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