Pulsed Bias Voltage Shutdown to Suppress the Polarization Effect for a CdTe Radiation Detector

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2770-2774

  Seino, Tomoyuki ^a   Kominami, Shinya ^a   Ueno, Yuichiro ^a   Amemiya, Kensuke ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Energy resolution; polarization effect; pulsed bias voltage; semiconductor radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858332728     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2002079     Document Type: Article

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