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What is a Defective Pixel?

May 25, 2017 | Detectors, Glossary of Spectroscopy Terms

A defective pixel in a spectrometer is a pixel that doesn’t behave as it should to the point of being unusable. This includes dead pixels, hot pixels, and popping pixels. The SpectraWiz software can account for defective pixels and will interpolate a value instead.