Development of portable CdZnTe spectrometers for remote sensing of signatures from nuclear materials

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Burger, A [1 ]
Groza, M [1 ]
Cui, YL [1 ]
Roy, UN [1 ]
Hillman, D [1 ]
Guo, M [1 ]
Li, LX [1 ]
Wright, GW [1 ]
James, RB [1 ]
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[1] Fisk Univ, Dept Phys, Nashville, TN 37208 USA
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PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI C - CONFERENCES AND CRITICAL REVIEWS, VOL 2, NO 5 | 2005年 / 2卷 / 05期
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10.1002/pssc.200460839
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Room temperature cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) gamma-ray spectrometers are being developed for a number for years for medical, space and national security applications where high sensitivity, low operating power and compactness are indispensable. The technology has matured now to the point where large volume (several cubic centimeters) and high energy resolution (approximately 1% at 660 eV) of gamma photons, are becoming available for their incorporation into portable systems for remote sensing of signatures from nuclear materials. The straightforward approach of utilizing a planar CZT device has been excluded due to the incomplete collection arising from the trapping of holes and causing broadening of spectral lines at energies above 80 keV, to unacceptable levels of performance. Solutions are being pursued by developing devices aimed at processing the signal produced primarily by electrons and practically insensitive to the contribution of holes, and recent progress has been made in the areas of material growth as well as electrode and electronics design. Present materials challenges are in the growth of CZT boules from which large, oriented single crystal pieces can be cut to fabricate such sizable detectors. Since virtually all the detector grade CZT boules consist of several grains, the cost of a large, single crystal section is still high. Co-planar detectors, capacitive Frisch-grid detectors and devices taking advantage of the small pixel effect, are configurations with a range of requirements in crystallinity and defect content and involve variable degrees of complexity in the fabrication, surface passivation and signal processing. These devices have been demonstrated by several research groups and will be discussed in terms of their sensitivity and availability. (c) 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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