An Investigation on Cooling of CZT Co-Planar Grid Detectors
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The effect of moderate cooling on CdZnTe semiconductor detectors has been studied for the COBRA experiment. Improvements in energy resolution and low energy threshold were observed and quantified as a function of temperature. Leakage currents are found to contribute typically ∼5 keV to the widths of photopeaks.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008