Small Area Silicon Diffused Junction X-Ray Detectors
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
- Vol. 29 (1) , 755-759
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.1982.4335951
Abstract
The low temperature performance of silicon diffused junction detectors in the measurement of low energy x-rays is reported. The detectors have an area of 0.04cm2 and a thickness of 100μm. The spectral resolutions of these detectors were found to be in close agreement with expected values indicating that the defects introduced by the high temperature processing required in the device fabrication were not deleteriously affecting the detection of low energy x-rays. Device performance over a temperature range of 77°K to 150°K is given. These detectors were designed to detect low energy x-rays in the presence of miniumum ionizing electrons. The successful application of silicon diffused junction technology to x-ray detector fabrication may facilitate the development of other novel silicon x-ray detector designs.Keywords
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