GALLIUM-ARSENIDE PARTICLE DETECTORS - A STUDY OF THE ACTIVE-REGION AND CHARGE-COLLECTION EFFICIENCY

Authors
BERLUTI L CANALI C CASTALDINI A CAVALLINI A CETRONIO A DAURIA S DELPAPA C LANZIERI C MATTEI G NAVA F PROIA M RINALDI P ZICHICHI A
Citation
L. Berluti et al., GALLIUM-ARSENIDE PARTICLE DETECTORS - A STUDY OF THE ACTIVE-REGION AND CHARGE-COLLECTION EFFICIENCY, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 354(2-3), 1995, pp. 364-367
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Physics, Particles & Fields","Instument & Instrumentation",Spectroscopy
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment → ACNP
ISSN journal
01689002
Volume
354
Issue
2-3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
364 - 367
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-9002(1995)354:2-3<364:GPD-AS>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Gallium arsenide particle detectors made by Alenia SpA have been teste d within the context of the RD-8 project and found to have a high char ge-collection efficiency (75%). We have analysed the data and found th e overall behaviour of these detectors to be coherent and understandab le in terms of one function: the local charge-collection efficiency. T wo ways have been used to measure the width of the active region and t he increase of such a width as a function of bias is found not to be c onsistent with a simple square-root law.