ISSN:
1089-7623
Quelle:
AIP Digital Archive
Thema:
Physik
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Elektrotechnik, Elektronik, Nachrichtentechnik
Notizen:
The x-ray energy responses of silicon semiconductor detectors, including surface-barrier and photodiode-type detectors, have been investigated, using synchrotron radiation from a 2.5 GeV positron storage ring at the Photon Factory (KEK) in order to study the fundamental physics mechanism of the output signals. These studies are essential to obtain the principles of the future designs of plasma x-ray detectors, as well as of their plasma data analyses. The characterization experiments and their physics interpretations were made using (i) a group of fully depleted detectors and (ii) another group of partially depleted detectors characterized by obviously different depletion-layer thicknesses and minority-carrier diffusion lengths, but with the same wafer thickness. Both results are well interpreted by our newly proposed formula for a semiconductor x-ray-detector response. The importance of these investigations for the plasma x-ray diagnostics is highlighted by significant errors for the estimation of plasma-electron temperatures when the commonly utilized conventional theory is employed for the plasma data analyses. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1146346
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