Investigation of hole-blocking contacts for high-conversion-gain amorphous selenium detectors for X-ray imaging

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2383-2389

  Abbaszadeh, Shiva ^a   Allec, Nicholas ^a   Ghanbarzadeh, Sina ^a   Shafique, Umar ^a,b   Karim, Karim S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amorphous selenium (a Se); high conversion gain; high quantum efficiency; large area electronics; X ray imaging

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; HIGH CONVERSIONS; HIGH QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; LARGE-AREA ELECTRONICS; XRAY IMAGING;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; IONIZATION POTENTIAL; MEDICAL IMAGING; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; PHOTODETECTORS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; POLYIMIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

SELENIUM;

EID: 84865526346     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2012.2204998     Document Type: Article

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