Semiconductor Radiation Detectors Device Physics /

• Main Author: Lutz, Gerhard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
• Subjects: Materials science.; Particle acceleration.; Electrical engineering.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics.; Electrical Engineering.

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 part...

Table of Contents:

• Semiconductor Physics
• Semiconductors
• Basic Semiconductor Structures
• Semiconductor Detectors
• Semiconductors as Detectors
• Detectors for Energy and Radiation-Level Measurement
• Detectors for Position and Energy Measurement
• The Electronics of the Readout Function
• The Integration of Detectors and Their Electronics
• Detectors with Intrinsic Amplification
• Detector Technology
• Device Stability and Radiation Hardness
• Device Simulation.