TY - JOUR
T1 - Dual-Cathode CsI Covered Microstrip Plate as VUV High Efficiency Photosensor
AU - IEEE
AU - Freitas, Diogo S.A.P.
AU - Curado da Silva, Rui M.
AU - Mendes, Nuno F.C.
AU - Conde, Carlos A.N.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received April 11, 2008; revised June 25, 2008. Current version published December 04, 2008. This work was supported by FEDER through Project POCTI/FP/FNU/49561/2002 from Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia-Portugal, and carried out in Centro de Instrumentação (Unit 217/94), Departamento de Física da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. C.A.N. Conde acknowledges travel support from Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desen-volvimento. D. S. A. P. Freitas was supported by a grant from Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia-Portugal: SFRH/BD/3244/2000. R. M. Curado da Silva was supported by a post doctoral grant from Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia-Portugal: SFRH/BPD/11670/2002.
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - A Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter based on a dual-cathode Microstrip Plate covered with a CsI film is described. This new dual-cathode technique has the advantage of increasing the VUV sensitive area of the Microstrip Plate. A detailed description of the technique is presented together with a discussion of the performance. The results obtained for a xenon filled Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter show an improvement of the energy resolution for 5.9 keV X-rays from 12.7%, for a single cathode device, to 11.1% for the dual-cathode device.
AB - A Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter based on a dual-cathode Microstrip Plate covered with a CsI film is described. This new dual-cathode technique has the advantage of increasing the VUV sensitive area of the Microstrip Plate. A detailed description of the technique is presented together with a discussion of the performance. The results obtained for a xenon filled Gas Proportional Scintillation Counter show an improvement of the energy resolution for 5.9 keV X-rays from 12.7%, for a single cathode device, to 11.1% for the dual-cathode device.
KW - Gaseous radiation detectors
KW - Microstrip detectors
KW - Photocathodes
KW - Scintillation detectors
KW - X-ray spectroscopy detectors
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85008026126
U2 - 10.1109/TNS.2008.2002325
DO - 10.1109/TNS.2008.2002325
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008026126
SN - 0018-9499
VL - 55
SP - 2662
EP - 2665
JO - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
JF - IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
IS - 5
ER -