Cadmium zinc telluride spectral modeling
Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors are the highest resolution room-temperature gamma ray detectors available for isotopic analysis. As with germanium detectors, accurate isotopic analysis using the spectra requires peak deconvolution. The CZT peak shapes are asymmetric, with a long low energy tail. The asymmetry is a result of the physics of the electron/hole transport in the semiconductor. An accurate model of the physics of the electron/hole transport through an electric field will allow the parameterization of the peak shapes as a function of energy. In turn this leads to the ability to perform accurate spectral deconvolution and therefore accurate isotopic analysis. The model and the peak-shape parameterization as a function of energy will be presented.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 290556
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-130504; CONF-980545-; ON: DE98057935; BR: GD0604020
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 9. symposium on radiation measurements and applications, Ann Arbor, MI (United States), 11-14 May 1998; Other Information: PBD: 1 Apr 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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