EPIC-pn CCDs
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Photography of the 12 CCDs of the EPIC pn camera. Its spatially uniform detector quality over the entire FOV is realized by the monolithic fabrication of twelve 3 x 1 cm pn-CCDs on a single waver. The four individual quadrants have each three pn-CCD subunits.
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