Effects of Te inclusions on the performance of CdZnTe radiation detectors

Conference · Sun Oct 19 04:00:00 EDT 2008

OSTI ID:950454

Bolotnikov, A E; Abdul-Jabber, N M; Babalola, O S; Camarda, G S; Cui, Y; Hossain, A M; Jackson, E M; Jackson, H C; James, J A; Kohman, K T; Luryi, A L; James, R B

Te inclusions existing at high concentrations in CdZnTe (CZT) material can degrade the performance of CZT detectors. These microscopic defects trap the free electrons generated by incident radiation, so entailing significant fluctuations in the total collected charge and thereby strongly affecting the energy resolution of thick (long-drift) detectors. Such effects were demonstrated in thin planar detectors, and, in many cases, they proved to be the dominant cause of the low performance of thick detectors, wherein the fluctuations in the charge losses accumulate along the charge's drift path. We continued studying this effect using different tools and techniques. We employed a dedicated beamline recently established at BNL's National Synchrotron Light Source for characterizing semiconductor radiation detectors, along with an IR transmission microscope system, the combination of which allowed us to correlate the concentration of defects with the devices performances. We present here our new results from testing over 50 CZT samples grown by different techniques. Our goals are to establish tolerable limits on the size and concentrations of these detrimental Te inclusions in CZT material, and to provide feedback to crystal growers to reduce their numbers in the material.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: Doe - National Nuclear Security Administration
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 950454
• Report Number(s): BNL--82133-2009-CP; NN2001000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

43 PARTICLE ACCELERATORS
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
DEFECTS
ELECTRONS
ENERGY RESOLUTION
FEEDBACK
FLUCTUATIONS
MICROSCOPES
NSLS
PERFORMANCE
RADIATION DETECTORS
TESTING