Solid-state detector charge injection device

The classical silicon photodiode linear array manufactured by Reticon was the first detector marketed successfully. Similar solid state linear array detectors based on charge coupled devices, or charge.injection devices may also be of interest. Typical of the families of detectors, the Reticon detectors are built in a number of elements/array sizes. Commercially available units have anywhere from 128 to 1024 elements/array. Each individual element in the array is 1 x 1 mil to 1 x 100 mil in area, and are spaced on approximately 1 mil centers. The spectrometer system discussed in this article was built using Reticon-type devices. 

Charge coupled device (CCD) A solid-state two-dimensional detector array used for spectroscopy and imaging. Charge-injection device (CID) A solid-state photodetector array used in spectroscopy. 

A wide variety of solid-state detectors consisting of multiple elements (multiple channels) have been developed over the past 20 years (140). Devices that fall into this category include silicon photodiode (SPD) arrays, charge injection devices (CID), charge coupled devices (CCD), microchannel plate (MCP) image inten-... 

The detectors in common use for these systems are the PMT or solid-state detectors such as CCDs and charge injection devices (CIDs). PMTs and photodiode arrays (PDAs) are discussed in Chapter 5. More detailed discussion of solid-state detectors is covered in Section 7.2. 

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