IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE, cilt.45, sa.3, ss.258-262, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
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 led to very robust and versatile detectors, having evolved over time to include complex multistep structures.