Photoemissive and Electroemissive Surfaces and Sandwiches

Abstract

Several commercially available photoemissive surfaces (PES) and electroemissive surfaces (ES) are evaluated to find: (1) the most efficient PES in the presence of sunlight-like optical signals, and, (2) the most efficient ES/PES combination (sandwich) for the transition between stages in an optical sensor employing, for example, an image intensifier tube coupled to an ebsicon- type camera tube. In the first case, an S-20VR PES is shown to be superior; while in the second case, a P-11/S-20 sandwich is shown to be the superior combination.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 25, 1977
Accession Number
ADA042431

Entities

People

  • Robert S Weber

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Masses
  • Camera Tubes
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Efficiency
  • Intervals
  • Materials
  • Optical Detectors
  • Photocathodes
  • Photoelectrons
  • Photons
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Space Objects
  • Standards
  • Sun

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Nanofabrication and Microfabrication.