Alan Owens

Semiconductor Radiation Detectors (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a self-contained compendium examining all types of semiconductors and how they can be used in radiation detection applications. It is suitable for graduate students and established researchers in this and related fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351629171
• Artikelnr.: 56897901

Autorenporträt

Dr. Alan Owens holds an undergraduate honours degree in physics and physical electronics and earned his doctorate in astrophysics from the University of Durham, United Kingdom. He spent over 35 years engaged in the design and construction of novel detection systems for X- and gamma-ray astronomy, mostly as a staff physicist at the European Space Agency's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands and presently as a Senior Advisor at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics in Prague in the Czech Republic. Dr. Owens has previously authored Compound Semiconductor Radiation Detector (CRC Press, 2012).

He also holds an honorary senior lectureship in space science at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. Dr. Owens is currently involved in the development and exploitation of new technologies for space applications. Much of this work revolves around compound semiconductors for radiation detection and measurement, which by its very nature involves materials and systems at a low maturity level. Consequently, he has been involved in all aspects of a systematic and long-term program on material assessment, production, processing, detector fabrication and characterization for a large number of compound semiconductors.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to Radiation and Its Detection: An Historical Perspective
2. Semiconductors 3. Crystal Structure 4. Growth Techniques 5. Contacting
Systems 6. Detector Fabrication 7. Detector Characterization 8. Radiation
Detection and Measurement 9. Materials Used for General Radiation Detection
10. Current Materials Used for Neutron Detection 11. Performance Limiting
Factors 12. Improving Performance 13. Future Directions in Radiation
Detection Appendix A: Supplementary Reference Material and Further Reading
List Appendix B: Table of Physical Constants Appendix C: Units and
Conversions Appendix D: Periodic Table of the Elements Appendix E:
Properties of the Elements Appendix F: General Properties of Semiconducting
Materials Appendix G: Radiation Environments Appendix H: Table of
Radioactive Calibration Sources