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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7956521 | Electrical connection of a substrate within a vacuum device via electrically conductive epoxy/paste An image intensifier includes a microchannel plate (MCP) having an output surface, and a ceramic substrate having an outer surface. The output surface of the MCP and the outer surface of the ceramic substrate are oriented facing each other. An imager is substantiall... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7855493 | Microchannel plate devices with multiple emissive layers A microchannel plate includes a substrate defining a plurality of pores extending from a top surface of the substrate to a bottom surface of the substrate. The plurality of pores includes a resistive material on an outer surface that forms a first emissive layer. A ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7741758 | Electron multiplier including dynode unit, insulating plates, and columns A venetian blind dynode 5A and metal channel dynodes 5B of a dynode unit 5 are fitted along with insulating spacers (insulating plates) 11 on columns 9 erected on a stem plate 3 that makes up a vacuum container, and since in... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7687978 | Tandem continuous channel electron multiplier A channel electron multiplier including a single channel CEM for receiving an input particle. A multi-channel CEM is positioned after the single channel CEM for receiving emissions from the single channel CEM. An electron collector is positioned after the multi-chan... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7495374 | Electron amplification plate for field emission display device The present invention provides an electron amplification plate placed between a first substrate and a second substrate of a field emission display device. The electron amplification plate comprises at least two insulating layers for electrical insulation; and at lea... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7427733 | Gated image intensifier A gated optical image intensifier 10 is provided with multiple intensifying channels 20, 22, 24, 26 each supplied with radiation via a respective optical channel of an optical splitter. The separate intensifying channels are subject to gating by a sequ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7425694 | Time-resolved measurement apparatus A time-resolved measurement apparatus (100) acquires a detection timing pulse from an output terminal (34) attached to a micro channel plate (30) in a photomultiplier tube (14). A position-time measuring circuit (16) generates a si... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7417235 | Particle detector for secondary ions and direct and or indirect secondary electrons A multi-purpose efficient charge particle detector that by switching bias voltages measures either secondary ions, or secondary electrons (SE) from a sample, or secondary electrons that originate from back scattered electrons (SE3), is described. The basic version o... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7408142 | Microchannel amplifier with tailored pore resistance A microchannel amplifier includes an insulating substrate that defines at least one microchannel pore through the substrate from an input surface to an output surface. A conductive layer is formed on an outer surface of the at least one microchannel pore that has a ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7394187 | Electron multipliers and radiation detectors An electron multiplier includes a plate having a plurality of interconnected particles, e.g., fibers, having electron-emissive surfaces. The particles may include a neutron-sensitive and/or neutron reactive material, such as 6Li, 10B, 155 | 07/01/2008 |
| 7301263 | Multiple electron beam system with electron transmission gates A multiple electron beam source comprises a photon source to generate a photon beam, a lens to focus the photon beam, a photocathode having a photon receiving surface and an electron emitting surface, and an array of electron transmission gates spaced apart from the... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7294954 | Micro-engineered electron multipliers This invention provides for a simple method of fabricating miniature electron multipliers, in an in-plane configuration suitable for use with miniature analytic instruments such as mass filters. The materials involved are predominantly silicon and compatible oxides,... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7274830 | System for multi-sensor image fusion A method and system for fusing image data includes an electronic circuit (L) for synchronizing image frames. An adaptive lookup table unit (302a, 302b) receives the image frame data sets and applies correction factors to individual pixels... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7265359 | Method and device for detecting fast neutrons A method of detecting fast neutrons of energy greater than 5 MeV is provided. The method includes providing a neutron detector including a plate having plurality of detection sites disposed thereon which produce an electron output. The neutron detector is directly c... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251400 | Absorptive clad fiber optic faceplate tube A limiter device is used as a fiber optic faceplate (FOFP) night vision goggle for limiting light or laser induced damage on a vacuum side of the FOFP. The limiter device includes a plurality of longitudinally extending optical fibers, each bundled to each other to ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7221837 | Device and method for reducing glass flow during the manufacture of microchannel plates The present invention provides a glass packing tube for use in fabricating a microchannel plate. The glass tube has a plurality of flat inner surfaces and is used to form a boule including a plurality of optical fibers located in the tube and a plurality of support ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7199345 | Low profile wire bond for an electron sensing device in an image intensifier tube An electron sensing device for receiving electrons from an output surface of an electron gain device has a silicon die including an active surface area for positioning below the output surface of an electron gain device. The silicon die also includes a silicon step ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7191380 | Defect-tolerant and fault-tolerant circuit interconnections Methods for increasing defect tolerance and fault tolerance in systems containing interconnected components, in which a signal level is classified as belonging to one of a plurality of different, distinguishable classes based on one or more thresholds separating the... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7183701 | Electron multipliers and radiation detectors Electron multipliers, radiation detectors, and methods of making the multipliers and detectors are described. In some embodiments an electron multiplier has a structure including a plurality of interconnected fibers having electron-emissive surfaces, the fibers havi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7180060 | E×B ion detector for high efficiency time-of-flight mass spectrometers An ion detector having a planar electrically conducting entrance plate, a converter assembly including a planar electrically conducting converter plate and a converter member for providing free electrons upon impact of ions, a planar electrically conducting exit pla... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7157697 | Ion detector An ion detector for a mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising one or more microchannel plates and an anode arranged to receive electrons emitted from the one or more microchannel plates. The anode preferably has a smaller diameter than the microchannel plates and ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7148461 | Photomultiplier tube with enchanced hermiticity A metal side tube (2), a glass faceplate (3), and a stem plate (4) constitute a hermetically sealed vessel (5) for a photomultiplier tube. An edge portion (20) is provided at on open end (A) of the side tube (2). The edge po... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7145134 | Multi-anode detector with increased dynamic range for time-of-flight mass spectrometers with counting data acquisitions A detection scheme for time-of-flight mass spectrometers is described that extends the dynamic range of spectrometers that use counting techniques while avoiding the problems of crosstalk. It is well known that a multiple anode detector capable of detecting differen... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141787 | Detector for a co-axial bipolar time-of-flight mass spectrometer A detector for a coaxial bipolar time-of-flight mass spectrometer is described. The detector includes a microchannel plate, a scintillator disposed in parallel relation to said microchannel plate, and a mirror oriented at an angle relative to said scintillator. The ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7129464 | Low-photon flux image-intensified electronic camera A low-photon flux image-intensified electronic camera comprises a gallium arsenide phosphide (GaAsP) photocathode in a high vacuum tube assembly behind a hermetic front seal to receive image photons. Such is cooled by a Peltier device to −20° C. to 0° C., and fo... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126263 | Perforated mega-boule wafer for fabrication of microchannel plates (MCPs) A mega-boule is used in fabricating microchannel plates (MCPs). The mega-boule has a cross-sectional surface including an island section, an inner perimeter section and an outer perimeter section, each section occupying a distinct portion of the cross-sectional surf... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7115854 | Photomultiplier and photodetector including the same The present invention relates to a photomultiplier that can realize a gain adjustment for each of electron multiplier channels respectively assigned to a plurality of light incidence regions in a more compact structure. The photomultiplier has a sealed container, an... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7109644 | Device and method for fabrication of microchannel plates using a mega-boule wafer The present invention provides a mega-boule for use in fabricating microchannel plates (MCPs). The mega-boule includes a cross-sectional surface having at least first, second and third areas, each area occupying a distinct portion of the cross-sectional surface. The... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7105807 | Multi dynode device and hybrid detector apparatus for mass spectrometry A multi dynode device (MDD) for electron multiplication and detection and a hybrid detector using the MDD have high peak signal output currents and large dynamic range while preserving the time-dependent information of the input event and avoiding the generation of ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7102284 | Photomultiplier In a photomultiplier, focusing pieces of a focusing electrode are formed with sufficient height that the photocathode in the adjacent channels cannot be viewed from the first and second stage dynodes of each channel in order to prevent light reflected from the first... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7092013 | InGaAs image intensifier camera An InGaAs Image Intensifier (“I2”) Camera (C) detects and forms an image (310) to be viewed. An InGaAs photocathode Image Intensifier (312) is used to pass an amplified signal (316) from a screen (320). The InGaAs image intensificatio... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7064485 | Photomultiplier tube having focusing electrodes with apertures and screens A glass container has a faceplate, a side tube, and a bottom. A photocathode is formed on the inner side of the faceplate. The glass container includes a first dynode, a second dynode, a screen focusing electrode, a dynode array, and an anode. The screen focusing el... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7049605 | Detector using microchannel plates and mass spectrometer A mass spectrometer detector having a coupling capacitor including an anode that is placed at a high potential of say −4.9 kV. An annular electrode is placed outside the anode. A voltage of say −5 kV is applied to the annular electrode. This reduces the potentia... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049747 | Fully-integrated in-plane micro-photomultiplier An integrated micro-photomultiplier is disclosed which employs sub-micron-wide channels for electron amplification. These channels are created with standard lithographic and planar-fabrication techniques, and sealed with a vacuum-deposition process. A photocathode, ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042155 | Electron-multiplier and photo-multiplier having dynodes with partitioning parts A dynode constituting an electron multiplier or a photomultiplier may be provided with eight rows of channels each defined by an outer frame and a partitioning part of the dynode. In each channel, a plurality of electron multiplying holes may be arranged. In specifi... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7042160 | Parallel plate electron multiplier with ion feedback suppression An embodiment of the invention is an electron multiplier including a first plate having an electron emissive first interior surface. A second plate has an electron emissive second interior surface. A voltage source is connected across the first plate and the second ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7030388 | Illuminant, and, electron beam detector, scanning electron microscope and mass spectroscope each including the same The present invention relates to an illuminant, etc., having a high response speed and a high luminous intensity. The illuminant comprises a substrate and a nitride semiconductor layer provided on one surface of the substrate. The nitride semiconductor layer emits f... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7026177 | Electron multiplier with enhanced ion conversion A replaceable, electronically-isolated, MCP-based spectrometer detector cartridge with enhanced sensitivity is disclosed. A coating on the MCP that enhances the secondary electron emissivity characteristics of the MCP is selected from aluminum oxide (Al2O... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025652 | Electron amplifier utilizing carbon nanotubes and method of manufacturing the same An electron amplifier and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The electron amplifier includes a substrate in which a plurality of through holes are formed, a resistive layer deposited on the sidewalls of the through holes, an electron emissive layer inc... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023134 | Dynode producing method and structure An inner surface of an electron-multiplier hole (14) includes a first curved surface (19a) and a second curved surface (19b) that face each other. The first curved surface (19a) extends from an edge of an input openin... | 04/04/2006 |