SILICON P-N JUNCTIONS AS CHARGED-PARTICLE DETECTORS

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Investigations of the electrical response of diffused p-n junctions were made on detectors obtained from two sources. A curve of output-pulse amplitude vs energy for a range of alpha particles from 3.2 to 7.68 Mev was drawn. When the data were corrected for energy loss in the insensitive region, the curve went through the origin. Energies of C/sup 12/ ions and fragments from fission of Cf/ sup 252/ were also plotted vs output-pulse. It was concluded that there is very little or no ionization defect for fission fragments in the solid-state detector. (M.C.G.)

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