Fabrication of pillar-structured thermal neutron detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1577-1580

  Nikolić, Rebecca J ^a,b   Conway, Adam M ^a,b   Reinhardt, Catherine E ^b   Graff, Robert T ^b   Wang, Tzu Fang ^b   Deo, Nirmalendu ^c   Cheung, Chin Li ^c  

^a IEEE

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORON; BORON COMPOUNDS; DETECTORS; FABRICATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SOLID STATE DEVICE STRUCTURES;

HIGH EFFICIENCIES; HIGH EFFICIENCY DEVICES; LOW OPERATING VOLTAGES; PILLAR ARRAYS; PILLAR STRUCTURES; PIN DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; SHORT-COMINGS; SILICON PILLARS; THERMAL NEUTRONS;

NEUTRONS;

EID: 48349095819     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2007.4437299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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