Mercuric iodide (HgI2) solid state X-ray detectors have many unique advantages in their application to X-ray astronomy. HgI2 detectors operate at or near room temperature so that bulky and massive cryogenic coolers are not required. HgI2 detectors also combine a high quantum efficiency with good room temperature energy resolution. Because of the excellent quantum efficiency, background contributions that scale is the volume of the detector are lower than for other hard X-ray detectors with equivalent stopping power (e.g. germanium).


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    Title :

    A bismuth germanate-shielded mercuric iodide x-ray detector for space applications


    Additional title:

    Ein mit Wismutgermanat abgeschirmter Quecksilberjodid-Roentgenstrahlungsdetektor fuer Raumfahrtanwendungen


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1982


    Size :

    4 Seiten, 2 Bilder, 1 Tabelle, 12 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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