TlBr gamma-ray spectrometers using the depth sensitive single polarity charge sensing technique

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1781-1784

  Hitomi, Keitaro ^b   Onodera, Toshiyuki ^b   Shoji, Tadayoshi ^b   Hiratate, Yukio ^b   He, Zhong ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b TOHOKU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Position sensitive detector; Semiconductor detector; Thallium bromide

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON MOBILITY; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; STARS;

DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETER (GRS); MOBILITY LIFE-TIME; MOBILITY-LIFETIME PRODUCTS; ROOM-TEMPERATURE (RT); SINGLE-POLARITY CHARGE SENSING; THALLIUM BROMIDE (TLBR);

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 45849099856     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.924086     Document Type: Conference Paper

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