Back illuminated drift silicon photomultiplier as novel detector for single photon counting

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1562-1565

  Merck, Christine ^a,b   Eckhardt, Rouven ^b,c   Hartmann, Robert ^b,c   Holl, Peter ^b,c   Koitsch, Christian ^b,c   Mirzoyan, Razmik ^a   Moser, Hans Günther ^a,b   Ninkovic, Jelena ^a,b   Richter, Rainer H ^a,b   Schaller, Gerhard ^b,d   Schopper, Florian ^b,d   Soltau, Heike ^b,c   Strüder, Lothar ^b,d   Teshima, Masahiro ^a   Vâlceanu, George ^b,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b MPI HALBLEITERLABOR   (Germany)

^c PNSENSOR GMBH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avalanche diode; Back illumination; BID SiPM; High quantum efficiency; Silicon photomultiplier; Single photon counting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; SILICON DETECTORS; TELESCOPES;

CHERENKOV PHOTONS; CHERENKOV TELESCOPES; PHOTON COUNTING;

PHOTOMULTIPLIERS;

EID: 38649091411     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2006.354196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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