Title :
New Developements in Solid-State Detectors
Author :
Gatti, Emilio ; Longoni, Antonio ; Sampietro, Marco
Author_Institution :
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica and Centro di Elettronica Quantistica e Strumentazione Elettronica CNR, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano 20133, Italy
Abstract :
The interest in semiconductor radiation detectors for energy and position measurements is rapidly increasing in the fields of high energy physics, astronomy, space applications and medicine. After a brief review of the field, the recent developements are here presented.
Keywords :
Detectors; Electrodes; Energy resolution; Event detection; Germanium; Leak detection; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor device noise; Silicon; Solid state circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Solid State Device Research Conference, 1987. ESSDERC '87. 17th European
Conference_Location :
Bologna, Italy