Long-term room temperature stability of TlBr gamma detectors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8142, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Conway, A M ^a   Voss, L F ^a   Nelson, A J ^a   Beck, P R ^a   Graff, R T ^a   Nikolic, R J ^a   Payne, S A ^a   Kim, H ^b   Cirignano, L J ^b   Shah, K ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

room temperature gamma detector; semiconductor radiation detector; TlBr

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC NUMBERS; CURRENT INSTABILITY; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; GAMMA DETECTORS; GAMMA RAY DETECTOR; GAMMA SPECTROMETERS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-QUALITY MATERIALS; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM TEMPERATURE STABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR RADIATION DETECTORS; TLBR; WIDE BAND GAP;

ATOMS; DEGRADATION; DETECTORS; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROFLUORIC ACID; NEUTRON DETECTORS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 80055034410     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.896713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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