Semiconductor Radiation Detectors: Device Physics

✍ Scribed by Dr. Gerhard Lutz (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Starting from basic principles, the autor, whose own contributions to these developments have been significant, describes the rapidly growing field of modern semiconductor detectors used for energy and position measurement radiation. This development was stimulated by requirements in elementary particle physics where it has led to important scientific discoveries. It has now spread to many other fields of science and technology. The book is written in a didactic way and includes an introduction to semiconductor physics. The working principles of semiconductor radiation detectors are explained in an intuitive way, followed by formal quantitative analysis. Broad coverage is also given to electronic signal readout and to the subject of radiation damage. The book is the first to comprehensively cover the semiconductor radiation detectors currently in use. It is useful as a teaching guide and as a reference work for research and applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Semiconductors....Pages 7-38
Basic Semiconductor Structures....Pages 39-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Semiconductors as Detectors....Pages 79-93
Detectors for Energy and Radiation-Level Measurement....Pages 95-108
Detectors for Position and Energy Measurement....Pages 109-152
The Electronics of the Readout Function....Pages 153-227
The Integration of Detectors and Their Electronics....Pages 229-238
Detectors with Intrinsic Amplification....Pages 239-258
Detector Technology....Pages 259-266
Device Stability and Radiation Hardness....Pages 267-311
Device Simulation....Pages 313-331
Back Matter....Pages 333-353

✦ Subjects

Optical and Electronic Materials;Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics;Electrical Engineering