Large diameter lithium compensated silicon detectors for the NASA Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) mission

Conference · Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

OSTI ID:191632

Allbritton, G L; Cummings, A C; Leske, R A ^[1]

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1. California Inst. of Tech., Pasadena, CA (United States); and others

Fabrication of the 100 mm diameter, 3 mm thick lithium-compensated silicon, Si(Li), detectors for the Cosmic Ray Isotope Spectrometer (CRIS) instrument on board the ACE satellite required development of: new float-zone silicon growing techniques, new Si(Li) fabrication procedures, and new particle beam testing sequences. These developments are discussed and results are presented that illustrate the advances made in realizing these CRIS Si(Li) detectors, which, when operational in the CRIS detector telescopes, will usher in a new generation of cosmic-ray isotope spectrometers.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 191632
• Report Number(s): LBL-37836; CONF-951073-16; ON: DE96004747; CNN: Contract NAS5-32626; Grant NAGW-1919
• Resource Relation: Conference: IEEE nuclear science symposium and medical imaging conference, San Francisco, CA (United States), 21-28 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
44 INSTRUMENTATION
INCLUDING NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE DETECTORS
SILICON
CRYSTAL GROWTH
SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS
FABRICATION
SPACE VEHICLES
RADIATION DETECTORS
SPECTROMETERS
DESIGN
LITHIUM SILICATES