TY - JOUR
T1 - Thin film cadmium telluride charged particle sensors for large area neutron detectors
AU - Murphy, J. W.
AU - Smith, L.
AU - Calkins, J.
AU - Kunnen, G. R.
AU - Mejia, I.
AU - Cantley, K. D.
AU - Chapman, R. A.
AU - Sastré-Hernández, J.
AU - Mendoza-Pérez, R.
AU - Contreras-Puente, G.
AU - Allee, D. R.
AU - Quevedo-Lopez, M.
AU - Gnade, B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
PY - 2014/9/15
Y1 - 2014/9/15
N2 - Thin film semiconductor neutron detectors are an attractive candidate to replace 3He neutron detectors, due to the possibility of low cost manufacturing and the potential for large areas. Polycrystalline CdTe is found to be an excellent material for thin film charged particle detectors - an integral component of a thin film neutron detector. The devices presented here are characterized in terms of their response to alpha and gamma radiation. Individual alpha particles are detected with an intrinsic efficiency of >80%, while the devices are largely insensitive to gamma rays, which is desirable so that the detector does not give false positive counts from gamma rays. The capacitance-voltage behavior of the devices is studied and correlated to the response due to alpha radiation. When coupled with a boron-based neutron converting material, the CdTe detectors are capable of detecting thermal neutrons.
AB - Thin film semiconductor neutron detectors are an attractive candidate to replace 3He neutron detectors, due to the possibility of low cost manufacturing and the potential for large areas. Polycrystalline CdTe is found to be an excellent material for thin film charged particle detectors - an integral component of a thin film neutron detector. The devices presented here are characterized in terms of their response to alpha and gamma radiation. Individual alpha particles are detected with an intrinsic efficiency of >80%, while the devices are largely insensitive to gamma rays, which is desirable so that the detector does not give false positive counts from gamma rays. The capacitance-voltage behavior of the devices is studied and correlated to the response due to alpha radiation. When coupled with a boron-based neutron converting material, the CdTe detectors are capable of detecting thermal neutrons.
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U2 - 10.1063/1.4895925
DO - 10.1063/1.4895925
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84907487652
SN - 0003-6951
VL - 105
JO - Applied Physics Letters
JF - Applied Physics Letters
IS - 11
M1 - 112107
ER -