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US 9,105,459 B1Granted
Microchannel plate assembly
AssigneeExelis, Inc.
InventorRichard F. Floryan
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Abstract
A microchannel plate assembly includes a plurality of microchannel plates that are aligned along a common axis and coupled together. The microchannel plates each have an object-side surface and an image-side surface and the assembly has respective interfaces between the image-side surface and the object-side surface of adjacent microchannel plates. At least one ion barrier film is disposed on at least one of the microchannel plates, but only on the object-side surfaces in the interfaces.
Claims12
An apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of microchannel plates including an object-side microchannel plate and an image-side microchannel plate, the microchannel plates being aligned along a common axis and being mechanically coupled to form respective interfaces between an image-side surface that faces an object-side surface of an adjacent one of the microchannel plates;
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- at least one ion barrier film disposed on the object-side surface of any of the microchannel plates excluding the object-side microchannel plate.
An apparatus comprising:
- a microchannel plate assembly having an object-side surface and an image-side surface to generate spatially distributed output electron streams from likewise spatially distributed input electrons, the microchannel plate assembly comprising:
- a plurality of microchannel plates including an object-side microchannel plate and an image-side microchannel plate, the microchannel plates being aligned along a common axis and being mechanically coupled to form respective interfaces between an image-side surface that faces an object-side surface of an adjacent one of the microchannel plates;
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- at least one ion barrier film disposed on the object-side surface of any of the microchannel plates excluding the object-side microchannel plate;
- an input device to generate the input electrons in response to a physical stimulus, the input device having an optical axis aligned with the common axis of the microchannel plate assembly;
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- an output device to generate a human perceivable signal from the output electron streams.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.