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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2006
W. Bruce Feller, Tolland, CT (US);
Paul L. White, Sturbridge, MA (US);
P. Brian White, Palmer, MA (US);
R. Gregory Downing, Niskayuna, NY (US);
W. Bruce Feller, Tolland, CT (US);
Paul L. White, Sturbridge, MA (US);
P. Brian White, Palmer, MA (US);
R. Gregory Downing, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Nova Scientific, Inc., Sturbridge, MA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus including a microchannel plate having a structure that defines multiple microchannels. The structure includes multiple claddings that form the walls of the microchannels, each of the claddings including a semiconducting layer. The claddings are surrounded by a glass having a lower percentage of materials having atomic numbers higher than 34 as compared to the cladding. The glass has a higher percentage of neutron absorbing material than the cladding, the neutron absorbing material capable of capturing neutrons in reactions that result in secondary electron emissions in the microchannels.