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Title: Solid-state neutron detector

Abstract

A method for fabricating a neutron detector includes providing an epilayer wafer of Boron-10 enriched hexagonal boron nitride (h-10BN or h-BN or 10BN or BN) having a thickness (t), dicing or cutting the epilayer wafer into one or more BN strips having a width (W) and a length (L), and depositing a first metal contact on a first surface of at least one of the BN strip and a second metal contact on a second surface of the at least one BN strip. The neutron detector includes an electrically insulating submount, a BN epilayer of Boron-10 enriched hexagonal boron nitride (h-10BN or h-BN or 10BN or BN) placed on the insulating submount, a first metal contact deposited on a first surface of the BN epilayer, and a second metal contact deposited on a second surface of the BN epilayer.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1860149
Patent Number(s):
11195968
Application Number:
16/897,742
Assignee:
Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, TX)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01T - MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01L - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
DOE Contract Number:  
AR0000964
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 06/10/2020
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Jiang, Hongxing, Lin, Jingyu, Li, Jing, Maity, Avisek, and Grenadier, Sam. Solid-state neutron detector. United States: N. p., 2021. Web.
Jiang, Hongxing, Lin, Jingyu, Li, Jing, Maity, Avisek, & Grenadier, Sam. Solid-state neutron detector. United States.
Jiang, Hongxing, Lin, Jingyu, Li, Jing, Maity, Avisek, and Grenadier, Sam. Tue . "Solid-state neutron detector". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1860149.
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