ISSN:
1662-0356
Source:
Scientific.Net: Materials Science & Technology / Trans Tech Publications Archiv 1984-2008
Topics:
Natural Sciences in General
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Technology
Notes:
CVD diamond films have reached in recent years superlative improvements in their “detector grade “ quality, with a time derivative which was never registered for other similar frontiermaterials. The basic properties of high quality CVD diamond films make them very interesting for awide range of radiation detectors : they provide fast signals with very low leakage currents, they arevery radiation resistant, they have excellent thermal properties and they can be manufactured asfree-standing detectors. The recent availability of single crystal CVD diamond samples of extremegood quality, suitable thickness and surface area has opened new application fields in nucleardetection and dosimetry, such as, for instance, hadron therapy and neutron spectrometry in fusionreactors. At the same time, strip and pixel detectors of unprecedented performances have beensuccessfully realized and exploited in the framework of high energy physics experiments.The paper will review the more recent history of CVD diamond nuclear detectors with respect tomaterial quality, with a particular emphasis on epitaxial single crystals diamond, and theachievements in terms of applications in some different fields
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://www.tib-hannover.de/fulltexts/2011/0528/01/42/transtech_doi~10.4028%252Fwww.scientific.net%252FAST.48.103.pdf
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