• DocumentCode
    87037
  • Title

    Experimental Determination of the Ionization Energy in TlBr

  • Author

    Hitomi, Keitaro ; Onodera, Toshiyuki ; Seong-Yun Kim ; Shoji, Tadayoshi ; Ishii, Keizo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Quantum Sci. & Energy Eng., Tohoku Univ., Sendai, Japan
  • Volume
    62
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    Jun-15
  • Firstpage
    1251
  • Lastpage
    1254
  • Abstract
    The average ionization energy required to excite an electron-hole pair in TlBr was estimated to be 5.50 ± 0.05 eV by comparing the peak position of 59.5-keV gamma rays obtained from four pixels of a pixelated TlBr detector to the peak position obtained from a Si PIN photodiode at room temperature.
  • Keywords
    gamma-ray effects; ionisation potential; photoconductivity; semiconductor counters; thallium compounds; wide band gap semiconductors; Si PIN photodiode comparison; TlBr; electron-hole pair excitation; gamma rays; ionization energy; pixelated TlBr detector; temperature 293 K to 298 K; Cadmium compounds; Crystals; Detectors; Gamma-rays; II-VI semiconductor materials; Image quality; Ionization; Gamma-ray detector; ionization energy; semiconductor radiation detector; thallium bromide; wide-gap semiconductor;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.2015.2430971
  • Filename
    7116624