Continued development of room temperature semiconductor nuclear detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7806, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kim, Hadong ^a   Cirignano, Leonard ^a   Churilov, Alexei ^a   Ciampi, Guido ^a   Kargar, Alireza ^a   Higgins, William ^a   O'Dougherty, Patrick ^a   Kim, Suyoung ^a   Squillante, Michael R ^a   Shah, Kanai ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Array; Capacitive Frisch Grid; Cinnabar; HgS; Orthogonal strip; semiconductor detector; Thallium bromide; TlBrI TlBrCl

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; CINNABAR; FRISCH GRIDS; HGS; ORTHOGONAL STRIP; THALLIUM BROMIDE; TLBRI TLBRCL;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; GAMMA RAYS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; THALLIUM;

THALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 78049381658     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.864147     Document Type: Conference Paper

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