  We have developed microstrip gas counters manufactured on standard printed
circuit board and having the following features: resistive cathode strips, thin
(10 micron) metallic anode strips and electrodes protected against surface
discharges by a Coverlay layer at their edges. These features allow the
detector to operate at gas gains as high as can be achieve with the best
microstrip gas counters manufactured on glass substrates. We believe that after
further developments this type of detectors can compete in some applications
with other micropattern detectors, for example MICROMEGAS.
