  We present a study of two di fferent sets of Micro-Channel Plates used for
time and space resolved single particle detection. We investigate the eff ects
of the gold coating and that of introducing an interplate voltage between the
spatially separated plates. We fi nd that the gold coating increases the count
rate of the detector and the pulse amplitude as previously reported for
non-spatially resolved setups. The interplate voltage also increases count
rates. In addition, we nd that a non-zero interplate voltage improves the
spatial accuracy in determining the arrival position of incoming single
particles (by 20%) while the gold coating has a negative e ect (by 30%).
