Lateral amorphous selenium metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector for large area, high speed, indirect conversion, medical imaging applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7622, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Kai ^a,b   Chen, Feng ^a   Shin, Kyung Wook ^a   Allec, Nicholas ^a   Karim, Karim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amorphous selenium; Indirect conversion X ray imager; Metal semiconductor metal photodetector

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; BLUE WAVELENGTH; DIRECT CONVERSION; ELECTRIC FIELD STRENGTH; FALL TIME; HIGH ENERGY; HIGH SPEED; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; INDIRECT CONVERSION X-RAY IMAGER; METAL SEMICONDUCTOR METAL PHOTODETECTOR; MSM PHOTODETECTOR; PHOTORESPONSES; PHOTORESPONSIVITY; PIXEL PITCH; REAL-TIME FLUOROSCOPY; RISETIMES; SLOW SPEED; TFT ARRAY; TIME CONSTANTS; X-RAY RESPONSE; XRAY IMAGING;

DETECTORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SELENIUM; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

SPEED;

EID: 78649437104     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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