ENCAPSULATED SURFACE-BARRIER PARTICLE DETECTORS SOME METHODS AND TECHNIQUES
Techniques are described in detail that have been developed for the manufacture of encapsulated surface-barrier particle detectors. The devices manufactured to date have found use as counters and spectrometers for fission fragments, alpha particles, and low-energy electrons from radioactive nuclei. Devices, 50 mm/sup 2/ in area, have a resolution for 6.1-Mev alpha particles of 26 kev at room temperature and 18 kev at 78 deg K. Resolution for 1.1-Mev electrons has been measured as 7.5 kev at 78 deg K for devices 25 mm/sup 2/ in area. The silicon used has been n-type, grown with a 111 orientation, and purchased in the form of ingots about 2 cm in diameter; the resistivity has ranged from 100 to 3000 ohm-cm. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., Ill.
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- NSA Number:
- NSA-16-014901
- OSTI ID:
- 4794108
- Report Number(s):
- ANL-6526
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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