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
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