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Silicon Radiation Detectors - Materials and Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Jack T. Walton  and
Eugene E. Haller
Jack T. Walton
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Eugene E. Haller
Affiliation:
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Department of Materials Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720U.S.A.
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Abstract

Silicon nuclear radiation detectors are available today in a large variety of sizes and types. This profusion has been made possible by the ever increasing quality and diameter silicon single crystals, new processing technologies and techniques, and innovative detector design. The salient characteristics of the four basic detector groups, diffused junction, ion implanted, surface barrier, and lithium drift are reviewed along with the silicon crystal requirements. Results of crystal imperfections detected by lithium ion compensation are presented. Processing technologies and techniques are described. Two recent novel position-sensitive detector designs are discussed—one in high-energy particle track reconstruction and the other in x-ray angiography. The unique experimental results obtained with these devices are presented.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 16: Symposium – F Nuclear Radiation Detector Materials , 1982 , 141
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1983

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