Super-radiation hard detector technologies: 3-D and widegap detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 2256-2261

  Rahman, M ^a   Al Ajili, A ^a   Bates, R ^a   Blue, A ^a   Cunningham, W ^a   Doherty, F ^a   Glaser, M ^b   Haddad, L ^a   Horn, M ^a   Melone, J ^a   Mikuz, M ^c   Quinn, T ^a   Roy, P ^a   O'Shea, V ^a   Smith, K M ^a   Vaitkus, J ^d   Wright, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Gallium nitride; Radiation damage; Radiation detectors; Silicon carbide; Three dimensional (3 D) detectors

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; DOSIMETERS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIATION DAMAGE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SILICON CARBIDE;

CHARGE COLLECTION; PEAK LUMINOSITIES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) DETECTORS; TRACKING SYSTEMS;

RADIATION DETECTORS;

EID: 8344267696     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.835902     Document Type: Article

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