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produced by the detected energy at one end of the strip to drift to the far end of the strip in time with the rate of the scanning such that energy from the same response is built up along the full length of the strip. This allows a much simpler way of integrating responses than linking separate
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is named after the process of signal integration carried out by "Signal Processing In The Element". The technique was invented at the
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strip, on a sapphire substrate, by applying a bias current through the strip. The detector is used in a scanned
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