Scintillation light read-out by low-gain thin avalanche photodiodes in silicon wells

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4 PART 1, 2000, Pages 1303-1306

  Allier, C P ^a,b   Hollander, R W ^a   Sarro, P M ^a   De Boer, M ^a   Van Eijk, C W E ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; ENCAPSULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MICROMACHINING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCINTILLATION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SILICON SENSORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0034245215     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.872967     Document Type: Article

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