A hand-held neutron detection sensor system

Author

Osberg, Kevin ; Schemm, Nathan ; Balkir, Sina ; Brand, Jennifer I. ; Hallbeck, Susan ; Dowben, P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nebraska Univ., Lincoln, NE

fYear

2006

fDate

21-24 May 2006

Abstract

In this paper, a hand-held neutron radiation sensor application is described. The sensor system utilizes a new class of boron-carbide diode that interacts with incoming neutrons. To interface with the boron-carbide diode an integrated front-end is designed in a 1.5mum standard CMOS technology. With the diode and front-end microchip, a hand-held neutron detection system was realized with an embedded microcontroller for realtime processing. The hand-held detector operation was then tested with a plutonium-beryllium neutron source. Testing results confirm the validity of the approach and the functionality of the design

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; embedded systems; microcontrollers; neutron detection; semiconductor diodes; 1.5 micron; CMOS technology; boron-carbide diode; embedded microcontroller; hand-held neutron detection sensor system; plutonium-beryllium neutron source; Boron; CMOS technology; Detectors; Kinetic energy; Neutrons; Semiconductor device reliability; Semiconductor diodes; Sensor systems; Temperature sensors; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Island of Kos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9389-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1692801

Filename

1692801