X-ray micro-beam characterization of a small pixel spectroscopic CdTe detector

Journal of Instrumentation

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Veale, M C ^a   Bell, S J ^a,b   Seller, P ^a   Wilson, M D ^a   Kachkanov, V ^c  

^a RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charge induction; Gamma detectors (scintillators, CZT, HPG, HgI etc); Instrumentation for synchrotron radiation accelerators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864484141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17480221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-0221/7/07/P07017     Document Type: Article

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