The detectors represent the core hardware of the WFC3
instrument. WFC3 will utilize two 2K x 4K pixel CCD detectors
from E2V Technologies. By coating the detectors with special
anti-reflective coatings, they may be made extremely sensitive
in spectral areas previously unavailable. Advances in UVIS
technology will allow extremely high quantum efficiencies,
better than 50%, or one-half electron/photon per pixel. Together
with the large format of the UVIS array, this will allow high
resolution imaging at a broader spectral range than ever before.
With these highly efficient detectors, the entire instrumental
efficiency can be raised significantly above current capabilities.
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