Space charge reconstruction in highly segmented HPGe detectors through capacitance-voltage measurements

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 641, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 92-100

  Bruyneel, B ^a   Birkenbach, B ^a   Reiter, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamma ray instruments; Pulse shape analysis; Segmented germanium detectors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE VOLTAGE; CAPACITANCE VOLTAGE MEASUREMENTS; COMPUTER CODES; CYLINDRICAL SYMMETRY; DOPING PROFILES; EXACT SOLUTION; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGHER DIMENSIONS; HPGE DETECTORS; IMPURITY CONCENTRATION; PULSE SHAPE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTED GERMANIUM DETECTORS; SEGMENTED HPGE DETECTORS; SPACE CHARGE DISTRIBUTIONS; SPACE CHARGES;

CAPACITANCE; CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; CHARGED PARTICLES; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; GAMMA RAYS; GERMANIUM; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; PARTICLE DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

ELECTRIC SPACE CHARGE;

EID: 79957520803     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.02.110     Document Type: Article

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