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Statistics of single-electron signals in electron-multiplying charge-coupled devices

Plakhotnik et al., 2006

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16778284942801245481
Author
Plakhotnik T
Chennu A
Zvyagin A
Publication year
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IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

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Electron-multiplying charge coupled devices promise to revolutionize ultrasensitive optical imaging. The authors present a simple methodology allowing reliable measurement of camera characteristics and statistics of single-electron events, compare the measurements …
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