• Title of article

    Yttrium hole-barrier contacts for germanium semiconductor detectors

  • Author/Authors

    Hull، نويسنده , , Ethan L. and Pehl، نويسنده , , Richard H. and Lathrop، نويسنده , , James R. and Suttle، نويسنده , , Bruce E.، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    4
  • From page
    39
  • To page
    42
  • Abstract
    Sputtered yttrium metal forms a thin hole-barrier contact on both p- and n-type germanium semiconductor detectors. Yttrium contacts can provide a sufficiently high hole barrier to prevent measurable contact leakage current below ∼120 K. Detectors having yttrium contacts produce good gamma-ray spectroscopy data.
  • Keywords
    HPGe , Germanium detector , Segmented contacts , Gamma-ray detector , Charged-particle detector , Yttrium
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    1992728