학술논문

Development and performance of large fine-pitch germanium strip detectors
Document Type
Conference
Source
IEEE Symposium Conference Record Nuclear Science 2004. Nuclear science symposium Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE. 4:2110-2114 Vol. 4 2004
Subject
Nuclear Engineering
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Germanium
Strips
Detectors
Energy resolution
Manufacturing
Amorphous materials
Timing
Nuclear imaging
Spectroscopy
Collimators
Language
ISSN
1082-3654
Abstract
We present the initial performance results obtained with a double-sided planar germanium strip detector with 1.25 mm pitch and 64 cm/sup 2/ of active area. The detector is 2 cm thick and was manufactured with an amorphous contact technology. The germanium crystal is 10/spl times/9/spl times/2 cm/sup 3/ and was extracted from the long direction of a germanium boule. The detector has 64 strips on each side, with one side AC coupled to the front-end electronics and the other side DC coupled to the front-end electronics. An energy resolution of 2.4 keV and a pixellization of 1.25 mm are achieved. A depth resolution of 1 mm was obtained by using a timing technique. Gamma-ray imaging and spectroscopy are demonstrated using diffuse gamma-ray sources and collimators. Images created using coded apertures are also shown.