The design and manufacture of Wedge and Strip Anodes

Conference · Sat Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1986 · IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5892785

Lapington, J S; Schwartz, H E

The authors describe the Wedge and Strip Anode (WSA), a two-dimensional position sensitive charge read-out system. Two new optimised WSA's have been developed, giving improved position resolution over previous WSA's for a given charge gain. They show that due to the effective absence of partition noise, WSA's outperform resistive disk anodes at all charge levels. They present measurements of the performance of these optimised read-outs. Finally, they have designed and built a software controlled WSA manufacturing facility, which can produce any pattern of up to 400 x 500 mm/sup 2/, with an absolute accuracy of +- 2.5..mu..m.

• Research Organization: Mullard Space Science Lab., Univ. College, London
• OSTI ID: 5892785
• Report Number(s): CONF-851009-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci.; (United States) Journal Volume: NS-33:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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440101* -- Radiation Instrumentation-- General Detectors or Monitors & Radiometric Instruments
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ACCURACY
AMPLIFICATION
ANODES
COMPUTERIZED CONTROL SYSTEMS
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DESIGN
ELECTRODES
FABRICATION
GAIN
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
OPTIMIZATION
PERFORMANCE
POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS
RADIATION DETECTORS
READOUT SYSTEMS
RESOLUTION