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Parsons, Steven; Hall, David; Hetherington, Oliver; Buggey, Thomas; Arnold, Timothy; Hubbard, Michael and Holland, Andrew (2024). SMILE Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) CCD370 proton irradiation results. Proceedings - SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, 13103, article no. 131030E.

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Buggey, T. W.; Randall, G.; Parsons, S.; Jones, L. S.; DeCaire, A. L.; Arnold, T.; Hetherington, O.; Holland, A. D. and Hall, D. J. (2024). Soft X-ray performance of an optimised charge-coupled device for astronomy. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 1066, article no. 169636.

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Hubbard, Michael; Buggey, Thomas; Hall, David; Feldman, Charly; Keelan, Jonathan; Hetherington, Oliver; Parsons, Steven; Arnold, Timothy and Holland, Andrew (2024). Impact of particle passage and focusing from micro-pore optics for radiation damage estimates. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 10(3), article no. 034003.

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Parsons, S.; Hall, D. J.; Hetherington, O.; Buggey, T. W.; Arnold, T.; Hubbard, M. W. J. and Holland, A. (2023). SMILE soft X-ray Imager flight model CCD370 pre-flight device characterisation. Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1) pp. 1–14.

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Hubbard, M.W. J.; Hetherington, O.; Hall, D. J.; Buggey, T. W.; Parsons, S.; Arnold, T.; Holland, A.; Pagani, C. and Sembay, S. (2023). The CCD instrument background of the SMILE SXI. Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1) pp. 1–10.

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Sembay, S.; Alme, A.L.; Agnolon, D.; Arnold, T.; Beardmore, A.; Belén Balado Margeli, A.; Bicknell, C.; Bouldin, C.; Branduardi-Raymont, G.; Breuer, J.P.; Buggey, T.; Butcher, G.; Canchal, R.; Carter, J.A.; Crawford, T.; Cheney, A.; Collado-Vega, Y.; Connor, H.; Crawford, T.; Eaton, N.; Feldman, C.; Forsyth, C.; Frantzen, T.; Galgóczi, G.; Garcia, J.; Genov, G.Y.; Gordillo, C.; Gröbelbauer, H-P.; Guedel, M.; Guo, Y.; Hailey, M.; Hall, D.; Hampson, R.; Hasiba, J.; Hetherington, O.; Holland, A.; Hsieh, S-Y; Hubbard, M.; Jeszenszky, H.; Jones, M.; Kennedy, T.; Koch-Mehrin, K.; Kögl, S.; Krucker, S.; Kuntz, K.D.; Lakin1, C.; Laky, G.; Lylund, O.; Martindale, A.; Miguel Mas Hesse, J.; Nakamura, R.; Oksavik, K.; Østgaard, N.; Ottacher, H.; Ottensamer, R.; Pagani, C.; Parsons, S.; Patel, P.; Pearson, J.; Peikert, G.; Porter, F.S.; Pouliantis, T.; Randall, G.; Qureshi, B.H; Raab, W.; Randall, G.; Read, A.M.; Roque, N.M.M.; Rostad, M.E.; Runciman, C.; Sachdev, S.; Samsonov, A.; Soman, M.; Sibeck, D.; Smit, S.; Søndergaard, J.; Speight, R.; Stavland, S.; Steller, M.; Sun, TianRan; Thornhill, J.; Thomas, W.; Ullaland, K.; Walsh, B.; Walton, D.; Wang, C. and Yang, S. (2023). The Soft X-ray Imager (SXI) on the SMILE Mission. Earth and Planetary Physics, 8(1) pp. 1–10.

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Buggey, Thomas; Bush, Nathan; Soman, Matthew; Hall, David; Parsons, Steven and Holland, Andrew (2022). Short-term trap decay in a cryogenically irradiated charge-coupled device. In: European Conference on Radiation and Its Effect on Components and Systems (RADECs 2022, Venice), IEEE.

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Buggey, Thomas; Soman, Matthew; Hall, David; Bush, Nathan; Parsons, Steve; Hetherington, Oliver and Holland, Andrew (2022). Developing the active trap model for charge-coupled device charge transfer optimization in large-scale space missions. Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 8(2)

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Parsons, Steven; Hall, David; Buggey, Thomas; Holland, Andrew and Verhoeve, Peter (2022). Improving radiation hardness in space-based Charge-Coupled Devices: an experimental validation of a new pre-fabrication modelling technique. Journal of Instrumentation, 17, article no. P10025.

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Parsons, S.; Buggey, T.; Holland, A.; Sembay, S.; Randall, G.; Hetherington, O.; Yeoman, D.; Hall, D.; Verhoeve, P. and Soman, M. (2021). Effects of temperature anneal cycling on a cryogenically proton irradiated CCD. Journal of Instrumentation, 16(11), article no. P11005.

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Randall, George; Parsons, Steven; Hall, David; Buggey, Thomas; Hetherington, Oliver; Leese, Mark; Holland, Andrew; Yeoman, Dean and Soman, Matthew (2020). Processing x-ray data on board the SMILE SXI. In: X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX, article no. 11454OT.

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Parsons, Steven; Hall, David; Holland, Andrew; Verhoeve, Peter; Sembay, Steven; Randall, George; Hetherington, Oliver; Yeoman, Dean; Buggey, Thomas and Soman, Matthew (2020). Radiation damage testing status of the CCDs for the SMILE SXI. In: X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX (Holland, Andrew and Beletic, James eds.), SPIE.

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Buggey, T. W.; Soman, M. R.; Hall, D. J.; Parsons, S.; Bush, N.; Hetherington, O.; Randall, G.; Leese, M. and Holland, A. D. (2020). Developing the active trap model for CCD charge transfer optimisation in large-scale space missions. In: X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX, Proceedings of SPIE, SPIE, Bellingham, WA, article no. 114541F.

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