ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
Recent advances in multielement solid-state detector systems for high rate, high resolution x-ray spectroscopy at noncryogenic temperatures will be described in this paper. A 16-channel silicon detector system, designed and built at BNL, has been recently operated in the NSLS machine beam #X19A, showing an average energy resolution of less than 250 eV FWHM, which is adequate to discriminate the fluorescence trace element against the background of elastically scattered photons in a typical EXAFS application. A larger, 128 channel system, will soon permit a higher overall count rate: (approximately-greater-than)106 counts per second. It is shown that, in order to achieve high resolution with a solid-state detector, special care must be spent in the detector-preamplifier assembly. A low noise detectorpreamplifier may be obtained integrating the front-end devices (an FET and/or a feedback capacitor) with the detector itself. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1147390
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