The ISPA-tube and the HPMT, two examples of a new class of photodetectors: the Hybrid Photo Detectors.

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D'Ambrosio, C [1 ]
Gys, T
Heijne, E
Leutz, H
Piedigrossi, D
Puertolas, D
Rosso, E
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[1] CERN, Div PPE, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[2] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-00100 Rome, Italy
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10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00631-2
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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A new class of photodetectors, the Hybrid Photo Detectors (HPD), is coming up as a major breakthrough in photodetection. The principle of the HPD is to couple a fully depleted silicon diode or silicon diode array to a photocathode in a vacuum tube. At present HPD's with one diode or a few diodes (Hybrid Photo Multiplier Tubes, HPMT) are commercially available (DEP, The Netherlands, and Hamamatsu, Japan) and a position sensitive photon detector (the Imaging Silicon Pixel Array tube, ISPA tube) is under development in our group (in collaboration with the RD-19 collaboration at CERN). We shall present the main features of HPD's and then our main results-and applications for both HPMT's and ISPA tubes on photon counting, on imaging and on high energy physics applications.
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