Position sensitive detector providing position information with enhanced reliability and performance

• Main Authors: HOLZMAN; LOUIS M, KELLY; THOMAS F, CAMUS; PATRICK P
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.09.1994
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS; ELECTRICITY

A position sensitive detector has one or more wedge-and-wedge anode units, each of which has four electrodes on a planar surface arranged in a plurality of sets of four wedge-shaped electrode elements each, with the sets extending across the anode unit. Two of the electrode elements become progressi...