Recent Advances In Small Pore Microchannel Plate Technology

A new type of Microchannel Plate (MCP) is described which has very small channels. MCPs with channels of both 6 and 4 micron pores are characterized. Single and multiple stage detectors were evaluated for rise-time, pulse width, spatial resolution, gain and pulse height resolution. A performance comparison with current state-of-the-art devices is made.