Electronic Resource
Woodbury, NY
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Applied Physics Letters
81 (2002), S. 298-300
ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
The performance of chemical-vapor-deposited (CVD) diamond films as on-line dosimeters has been substantially improved after irradiation with fast neutrons up to a fluence of 5×1014 n/cm2. This is correlated to a decrease of more than one order of magnitude in the concentration of deep levels with activation energy in the range 0.9–1.4 eV, as observed by thermally stimulated current and photoinduced current transient spectroscopy. As a consequence, a fast and reproducible dynamic response is observed during irradiation with a 6 MV photon beam from linear accelerator and with a Co60 source. A quasilinear dependence of the current on the dose rate is obtained in the range of interest for clinical applications (0.1–10 Gy/min). The resulting sensitivity is definitely higher than that of standard ionization chambers, and compares favorably with those of standard silicon dosimeters and of best-quality natural and CVD diamond devices. © 2002 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1491014
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