Performance of a 30 mm2 Silicon Drift Detector

Use of a silicon drift detector for cathodoluminescence detection

Vortextm – a New High Performance Silicon Drift Detector for Xrd and Xrf Applications

A new class of silicon drift detectors (SDD), called “VortexTM”, with a large active area (~ 0.5 cm), high-energy resolution (<150 eV FWHM) and high-count rate capability (>1 Mcps) has been developed for X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) applications. The VortexTM design allows for a relatively large active area while still maintaining a very low anode capacitance (~ 60 fF). ...

A Detector for Fast Electron Current Measurements based on Silicon Drift Detector Technology

Solid state detectors for electron current measurements are a well-established tool in electron microscopy, especially for the detection of backscattered electrons (BSE) underneath the pole piece inside a SEM or for the measurement of transmitted electrons in STEM or TEM applications. The progress in electron microscopy over the last years has led to many interesting new applications but also t...

Gated Silicon Drift Detector Fabricated from a Low-Cost Silicon Wafer

Inexpensive high-resolution silicon (Si) X-ray detectors are required for on-site surveys of traces of hazardous elements in food and soil by measuring the energies and counts of X-ray fluorescence photons radially emitted from these elements. Gated silicon drift detectors (GSDDs) are much cheaper to fabricate than commercial silicon drift detectors (SDDs). However, previous GSDDs were fabricat...

Two-dimensional approach to fluorescence yield XANES measurement using a silicon drift detector.

The objective of this article is to describe the capability of a two-dimensional (2D) approach to X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) measurement by means of a partial fluorescence yield (PFY) method. 2D-XANES measurements were achieved by using a silicon drift detector as an energy-dispersive fluorescence detector. The advantage of this technique is that it allows full surveys of X-ra...