Digital rise-time discrimination of large-area avalanche photodiode signals in X-ray detection

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1699-1703

  Fernandes, L M P ^a   Simoes P C P S ^a   Dos Santos, J M F ^a   Morgado, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Pulse discrimination efficiency; Rise time discrimination; X ray detection

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FLUORESCENCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

LARGE-AREA AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE SIGNALS;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0036703111     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.801518     Document Type: Article

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