TY - GEN
T1 - Charge relaxation and gain depletion for candidate secondary electron emission materials
AU - Insepov, Zeke
AU - Ivanov, Valentin
AU - Elam, Jeffrey
AU - Adams, Bernhard
AU - Frisch, H.
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - Microchannel plates (MCPs) are widely used in photodetectors with a picosecond resolution. Two main characteristics of MCPs, gain and timing resolution, strongly depend on the materials parameters, as well as on the history of electron avalanche evolution. The most important effect that can significantly change the efficiency of an MCP is the effect of saturation of the electronic current, which occurs at high-level input signals. In this paper, the saturation effects are studied numerically, as they are applicable to analysis of large-area, fast photodetectors. It is shown that the saturation effect for short pulses can be reduced by introducing a thin, resistive layer between the bulk material and the emissive coating. The gain and time resolution dependencies on the pore size and voltage are studied numerically. The results are compared with the simulations of other authors and available experimental data.
AB - Microchannel plates (MCPs) are widely used in photodetectors with a picosecond resolution. Two main characteristics of MCPs, gain and timing resolution, strongly depend on the materials parameters, as well as on the history of electron avalanche evolution. The most important effect that can significantly change the efficiency of an MCP is the effect of saturation of the electronic current, which occurs at high-level input signals. In this paper, the saturation effects are studied numerically, as they are applicable to analysis of large-area, fast photodetectors. It is shown that the saturation effect for short pulses can be reduced by introducing a thin, resistive layer between the bulk material and the emissive coating. The gain and time resolution dependencies on the pore size and voltage are studied numerically. The results are compared with the simulations of other authors and available experimental data.
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U2 - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873957
DO - 10.1109/NSSMIC.2010.5873957
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960293637
SN - 9781424491063
T3 - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record
SP - 1193
EP - 1198
BT - IEEE Nuclear Science Symposuim and Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, NSS/MIC 2010 and 17th International Workshop on Room-Temperature Semiconductor X-ray and Gamma-ray Detectors, RTSD 2010
Y2 - 30 October 2010 through 6 November 2010
ER -