In ionizing radiation detection physics, a semiconductor detector is a device that uses a semiconductor (usually silicon or germanium) to measure the effect...

type of semiconductor diode, and one of the first semiconductor electronic devices. The most common type was the so-called cat's whisker detector, which...

practical application of semiconductors in electronics was the 1904 development of the cat's-whisker detector, a primitive semiconductor diode used in early...

Hybrid pixel detectors are a type of ionizing radiation detector consisting of an array of diodes based on semiconductor technology and their associated...

Many of the detectors invented and used so far are ionization detectors (of which gaseous ionization detectors and semiconductor detectors are most typical)...

gamma ray photons. In semiconductor detectors, an electric field is applied to the detector volume. An electron in the semiconductor is fixed in its valence...

material, altering its conductivity. Photoconductive detectors are typically made of semiconductors. Photoemission or photoelectric effect: Photons cause...

(Si(Li) or Ge(Li)) semiconductor detectors have been developed. X-ray photons are converted to electron-hole pairs in the semiconductor and are collected...

direct conversion semiconductor detector using a low temperature (~100 °C) curing silver epoxy and gold stud technique in a hybrid detector arrangement. The...

materials in these are semiconductors with narrow band gaps. Incident IR photons can cause electronic excitations. In photoconductive detectors, the resistivity...

photoionization detectors, infrared point sensors, ultrasonic sensors, electrochemical gas sensors, and metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) sensors. More...

telluride. A direct bandgap semiconductor, it is used in a variety of applications, including semiconductor radiation detectors, photorefractive gratings...

A semiconductor device is an electronic component that relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material (primarily silicon, germanium,...

of microstructured semiconductor neutron detectors (MSND). These detectors have microscopic structures etched into a semiconductor substrate, subsequently...

radio receiver detectors. Until the 1950s, vacuum diodes were used more frequently in radios because the early point-contact semiconductor diodes were less...

nuclear electronics, a microstrip detector is a particle detector that consists of a large number of identical semiconductor strips laid out along one axis...

is a problem that may appear when high-resolution detectors (usually germanium semiconductor detectors) are used in beta decay studies. It can affect the...

law detector is a device that produces an output proportional to the square of some input. For example, in demodulating radio signals, a semiconductor diode...

scatters within a scintillator or a semiconductor detector and the scattered photon escapes from the detector's volume, only a fraction of the incident...

capacitive. A semiconductor crystal detector that demodulates the radio signal to extract the audio signal (modulation). The crystal detector functions as...

carrier wave. This is its current meaning, although modern detectors usually consist of semiconductor diodes, transistors, or integrated circuits. In a superheterodyne...

In semiconductor production, doping is the intentional introduction of impurities into an intrinsic (undoped) semiconductor for the purpose of modulating...

angle of collection. BSE detectors are usually either of scintillator or of semiconductor types. When all parts of the detector are used to collect electrons...

Field-effect transistor n–p–n transistor p–n–p transistor Semiconductor detector Semiconductor device Transistor–transistor logic Riordan, Michael; Hoddeson...

chamber, the simplest ionising radiation detector Gaseous ionization detector, an overview of the main gaseous detector types Geiger–Müller tube, provides a...

type and the semiconductor type. Of these the scintillation and semiconductor type are the most widely employed. There are two detector configurations...

effect refers to semiconductor detectors; when these are used in harsh radiation environments, defects begin to appear in the semiconductor crystal lattice...

Semiconductor materials are nominally small band gap insulators. The defining property of a semiconductor material is that it can be compromised by doping...

Ionization chambers Gaseous ionization detectors Geiger counters Photodetectors Scintillation counters Semiconductor detectors This disambiguation page lists...

(In) and antimony (Sb). It is a narrow-gap semiconductor material from the III-V group used in infrared detectors, including thermal imaging cameras, FLIR...