Recent progress in thallium bromide gamma-ray spectrometer development

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 59, Issue 1 PART 2, 2012, Pages 243-248

  Kim, Hadong ^a   Kargar, Alireza ^a   Cirignano, Leonard ^a   Churilov, Alexei ^a   Ciampi, Guido ^a   Higgins, William ^a   Olschner, Fred ^b   Shah, Kanai ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b Cremat Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth correction; Long term stability; Semiconductor detector; TlBr

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; LONG TERM STABILITY; MOBILITY-LIFETIME PRODUCTS; RECENT PROGRESS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE CARRIER; THALLIUM BROMIDE; TLBR;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; THALLIUM;

SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

EID: 84862810922     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2011.2173503     Document Type: Article

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