1997 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference, New Mexico, United States Of America, 9 - 15 November 1997, pp.420-424, (Full Text)
Gas counters made from parallel metallic wire meshes have been proposed by Charpak et al. long ago as a preamplifying stage to wire chambers and developed meanwhile by many workers. The concept leaded to very robust and versatile detectors, having evolved over time to include complex multistep structures.