PO-0914: Helium Beam Radiography System based on pixelized semiconductor detectors

Material Identification Methods in Spectral Radiography Using CdTe Semiconductor Detectors

Material identification in radiography is traditionally performed by dualenergy systems, using double exposure technique or two-layers detectors. Performance of such systems results from the closeness of the materials to be discriminated, from photonic noise, and energetic discriminating power of the detector. For difficult problems such as explosive detection in luggage, conventional dual-ener...

On the basic mechanism of Pixelized Photon Detectors

A Pixelized Photon Detector (PPD) is a generic name for the semiconductor devices operated in the Geiger-mode, such as Silicon PhotoMultiplier and Multi-Pixel Photon Counter, which has high photon counting capability. While the internal mechanisms of the PPD have been intensively studied in recent years, the existing models do not include the avalanche process. We have simulated the multiplicat...

Pixelized Gas Micro-well Detectors for Advanced Gamma-ray Telescopes

We describe possible applications of pixelized micro-well detectors (PMWDs) as three-dimensional charged particle trackers in advanced gamma-ray telescope concepts. A micro-well detector consists of an array of individual micro-patterned gas proportional counters opposite a planar drift electrode. When combined with pixelized thin film transistor (TFT) array readouts, large gas volumes may be i...

Future of Semiconductor Based Thermal Neutron Detectors

Thermal neutron detectors have seen only incremental improvements over the last decades. In this paper we overview the current technology of choice for thermal neutron detection – He tubes, which suffer from, moderate to poor fieldability, and low absolute efficiency. The need for improved neutron detection is evident due to this technology gap and the fact that neutrons are a highly specific i...

Semiconductor Detectors - an Introduction