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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

(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...

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

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

some of the elements of which they are composed. However, detectors based on semiconductors, notably hyperpure germanium, have better intrinsic energy...

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

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

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

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

Gaseous ionization detectors Neutron detection Particle detector Proportional counter Scintillator Scintillation counter Semiconductor detector Thermoluminescent...

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...

scattering in a scintillator or a semiconductor detector. It is a measurement phenomenon caused by scattering within the detector, and is not present in the...

detected. This would be by means of either a scintillation detector or a semiconductor detector placed in close proximity to the body. Radioactive decay...

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

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

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

the amount of ionising energy deposited in the sensor of the radiation detector. The conversion calculation is dependent on the radiation energy levels...

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

four common types of detector: gas flow proportional counters sealed gas detectors scintillation counters semiconductor detectors Gas flow proportional...

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

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

tunneling Semiconductor chip Semiconductor detector Solar cell Transistor model Thin film Tight-binding model Device Fabrication Semiconductor device fabrication...

diode with a wide, undoped intrinsic semiconductor region between a p-type semiconductor and an n-type semiconductor region. The p-type and n-type regions...

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