Silicon radiation detectors: materials and applications
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.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 6874241
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-14909; CONF-821107-29; ON: DE83003589
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. international symposium on the scientific basis for radioactive waste management, Boston, MA, USA, 1 Nov 1982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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POSITION SENSITIVE DETECTORS
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LI-DRIFTED SI DETECTORS
MONOCRYSTALS
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SURFACE BARRIER DETECTORS
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
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