• The Germanium Detector Array (or GERDA) experiment was searching for neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) in Ge-76 at the underground Laboratori Nazionali...
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    decay has not yet been found. The Germanium Detector Array (GERDA) collaboration's result of phase I of the detector was a limit of T β β 0 ν > 2.1 ⋅ 10...
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    Cologne, PSI and RIKEN (HiCARI). Miniball is a high-resolution germanium detector array, specifically designed to work with low-intensity radioactive ion...
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    medium. Other detectors have consisted of large volumes of chlorine or gallium which are periodically checked for excesses of argon or germanium, respectively...
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    Diode (redirect from Germanium diode)
    (around a thousand volts per centimeter). Germanium and silicon are common materials. Some of these detectors sense position as well as energy. They have...
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  • most modern electronics. Some examples of semiconductors are silicon, germanium, gallium arsenide, and elements near the so-called "metalloid staircase"...
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    Germanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ge and atomic number 32. It is lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white and similar in appearance to silicon...
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    efficiency than CR. Since the 1970s, silicon or germanium doped with lithium (Si(Li) or Ge(Li)) semiconductor detectors have been developed. X-ray photons are...
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    detected gamma ray. Common detector materials include sodium iodide (NaI) scintillation counters, high-purity germanium detectors such as Bismuth germanate...
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  • A clover detector is a gamma-ray detector that consists of 4 coaxial N-type high purity germanium (Ge) crystals each machined to shape and mounted in a...
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    kilometer. Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors called Digital...
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    devices. Most transistors are made from very pure silicon, and some from germanium, but certain other semiconductor materials are sometimes used. A transistor...
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    Luskin et al. (2023). “Large active-area superconducting microwire detector array with single-photon sensitivity in the near-infrared”, Appl. Phys. Lett...
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    radiation detectors can operate in direct-conversion (or photoconductive) mode at room temperature, unlike some other materials (particularly germanium) which...
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    Photodiode (redirect from Photodiode array)
    their greater bandgap, silicon-based photodiodes generate less noise than germanium-based photodiodes. Binary materials, such as MoS2, and graphene emerged...
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    AGATA, for Advanced GAmma Tracking Array, is a High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) semiconductor detector array for γ-ray spectroscopy that is based on the novel...
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  • level. Here is a non-exhaustive list of neutrino experiments and neutrino detectors. ^[a] Accelerator neutrino (AC), Active galactic nuclei neutrino (AGN)...
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    a gamma-ray spectroscopy setup consisting of a high-resolution germanium detector array. The experiment is used to analyse the decays of short-lived nuclei...
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    Telescope (BUST), located 300 m (980 ft) below the surface, the gallium–germanium neutrino telescope (Soviet–American Gallium Experiment, SAGE) located...
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    Single-photon avalanche diode (category Particle detectors)
    Paul and G.S. Buller "High performance planar germanium-on-silicon single-photon avalanche diode detectors" Nature Communications 10, 1086 (2019) - DOI:...
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    amounts of solid elements from the nitrogen column of the periodic table to germanium to produce rectifying devices. The demands of his work on radar prevented...
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  • X-ray detectors that are sensitive over a broad range of energies. Established semiconductor detector technology based on silicon and germanium have excellent...
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    only later that the electron tube replaced the crystal detector, although devices like germanium diodes continued to be used in simpler receivers for some...
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    is a problem that may appear when high-resolution detectors (usually germanium semiconductor detectors) are used in beta decay studies. It can affect the...
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    used for photovoltaic arrays for satellite applications. Later, dual- and triple-junction solar cells based on GaAs with germanium and indium gallium phosphide...
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    short-wavelength modules. The 70 μm detector used gallium-doped germanium technology, and the 160 μm detector also used gallium-doped germanium, but with mechanical...
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    as a modification of a method developed by William Gardner Pfann for germanium. In the vertical configuration molten silicon has sufficient surface tension...
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    It is the most common oxide-based scintillator. Bismuth germanium oxide is used in detectors in particle physics, aerospace physics, nuclear medicine...
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    implementation, Noyce's chip was made of silicon, whereas Kilby's was made of germanium, and Noyce's was fabricated using the planar process, developed in early...
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    Images can be generated by combining a microscope with linear or 2-D array detectors. The spatial resolution can approach 5 microns with tens of thousands...
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