Radiation Damage in Semiconductor Detectors

Semiconductor Detectors in Radiation Medicine:

Semiconductor radiation detectors play an important role in radiation instrumentation. They have many advantages due to their small size, outstanding energy resolution in nuclear spectroscopy, easy pixilation for high spatial resolution and ability of integration with readout electronics. Advancement in microelectronic industry made silicon one of the most popular material for radiation detecto...

New materials for radiation hard semiconductor detectors

We present a review of the current status of research into new semiconductor materials for use as particle tracking detectors in very high radiation environments. This work is carried out within the framework of the CERN RD50 collaboration, which is investigating detector technologies suitable for operation at the proposed Super-LHC facility (SLHC). Tracking detectors operating at the SLHC in t...

Semiconductor scintillator for three-dimensional array of radiation detectors

Semiconductor Scintillator for 3-Dimensional Array of Radiation Detectors

There are two large groups of solid-state radiation detectors, which dominate the area of ionizing radiation measurements, scintillation detectors and semiconductor diodes. The scintillators detect high-energy radiation through generation of light which is subsequently registered by a photo-detector that converts light into an electrical signal. Semiconductor diodes employ reverse biased p-n ju...

Radiation Damage in CCDs used as Particle Detectors

Introduction CCDs sensitive to minimum-ionizing particles (hereafter referred to as min-I particles) have found a niche as very high precision tracking devices, used as vertex detectors for the detection of short-lived heavy flavor quarks or τ leptons, in high energy physics experiments [1-3]. As such, they must be located as close as possible to the interaction point (usually starting within 1...