First Barcelona Techno Week: Course on semiconductor radiation detectors

70 years of semiconductor nuclear detectors, principles and overview of implementations

11 Jul 2016, 09:30

1h

N06 (Other Institutes)

Introductory concepts

Speaker

Erik Heijne (Czech Technical University (CZ))

Description

The explanation of the photo-electric effect in 1905 literally shed light on the structure of matter. Nevertheless, it still took 40 years before the first practical solid devices exploited this understanding for detection of ionizing nuclear particles. From then on, during 70 years a succession of innovations has led to widespread use of semiconductor nuclear detectors in physics, materials analysis and medical imaging. The silicon-based micro- and nano-electronics technology enabled much of these semiconductor sensor developments. (Short demo with Timepix device).