Silicon solid state devices and radiation detection [[electronic resource] /] / Claude Leroy, Pier-Giorgio Rancoita

• Autore: Leroy Claude
• Pubblicazione: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N. J., : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Disciplina: 539.20287
• Soggetto topico: Semiconductor nuclear counters - Design and construction; Semiconductor nuclear counters - Materials; Silicon carbide
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RancoitaPier-Giorgio
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical reference (p. 373-400) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1. Interactions of Charged Particles and Photons; 1.1 Passage of Massive Charged Particles Through Matter; 1.1.1 Collision-Loss Processes of Massive Charged Particles; 1.1.1.1 Maximum Transferable Energy to Atomic Electrons; 1.1.1.2 Bragg Curve and Peak; 1.1.1.3 Energy-Loss Minimum, Density Effect and Relativistic Rise; 1.1.1.4 Restricted Energy-Loss and Fermi Plateau; 1.1.1.5 Energy-Loss Fluctuations and the Most Probable Energy-Loss; 1.1.1.6 Improved Energy-Loss Distribution and Effective Most Probable Energy-Loss; 1.1.1.7 Nuclear Energy-Loss of Massive Particles ; 1.2 Collision and Radiation Energy-Losses of Electrons and Positrons 1.2.1 Collision Losses and the Most Probable Energy-Loss; 1.2.2 Radiation Energy-Losses; 1.3 Nuclear and Non-Ionizing Energy Losses of Electrons; 1.3.1 Scattering Cross Section of Electrons on Nuclei; 1.3.1.1 Interpolated Expression for RMott; 1.3.1.2 Screened Coulomb Potentials; 1.3.1.3 Finite Nuclear Size; 1.3.1.4 Finite Rest Mass of Target Nucleus; 1.3.2 Nuclear Stopping Power of Electrons; 1.3.3 Non-Ionizing Energy-Loss of Electrons; 1.4 Interactions of Photons with Matter; 1.4.1 Photoelectric Effect; 1.4.2 Compton Effect ; 1.4.3 Pair Production 1.4.3.1 Pair Production in Nuclear and Atomic Electron Fields; 1.4.4 Absorption of Photons in Silicon; 2. Physics and Properties of Silicon Semiconductor; 2.1 Structure and Growth of Silicon Crystals; 2.1.1 Imperfections and Defects in Crystals; 2.2 Energy Band Structure and Energy Gap; 2.2.1 Energy Gap Dependence on Temperature and Pressure in Silicon; 2.2.2 Effective Mass; 2.2.2.1 Conductivity and Density-of-States Effective Masses in Silicon; 2.3 Carrier Concentration and Fermi Level; 2.3.1 Effective Density-of-States ; 2.3.1.1 Degenerate and Non-Degenerate Semiconductors 2.3.1.2 Intrinsic Fermi-Level and Concentration of Carriers; 2.3.2 Donors and Acceptors; 2.3.2.1 Extrinsic Semiconductors and Fermi Level; 2.3.2.2 Compensated Semiconductors; 2.3.2.3 Maximum Temperature of Operation of Extrinsic Semiconductors; 2.3.2.4 Quasi-Fermi Levels; 2.3.3 Largely Doped and Degenerate Semiconductors; 2.3.3.1 Bandgap Narrowing in Heavily Doped Semiconductors; 2.3.3.2 Reduction of the Impurity Ionization-Energy in Heavily Doped Semiconductors; 3. Transport Phenomena in Semiconductors ; 3.1 Thermal and Drift Motion in Semiconductors 3.1.1 Drift and Mobility; 3.1.1.1 Mobility in Silicon at High Electric Fields or Up to Large Doping Concentrations; 3.1.2 Resistivity; 3.2 Diffusion Mechanism; 3.2.1 Einstein's Relationship; 3.3 Thermal Equilibrium and Excess Carriers in Semiconductors; 3.3.1 Generation, Recombination Processes, and Carrier Lifetimes; 3.3.1.1 Bulk Processes in Direct Semiconductors; 3.3.1.2 Bulk Processes in Indirect Semiconductors; 3.3.1.3 Surface Recombination; 3.3.1.4 Lifetime of Minority Carriers in Silicon; 3.4 The Continuity Equations ; 3.4.1 The Dielectric Relaxation Time and Debye Length
• Sommario/riassunto: This book addresses the fundamental principles of interaction between radiation and matter, the principles of working and the operation of particle detectors based on silicon solid state devices. It covers a broad scope in the fields of application of radiation detectors based on silicon solid state devices from low to high energy physics experiments, including in outer space and in the medical environment. This book also covers state-of-the-art detection techniques in the use of radiation detectors based on silicon solid state devices and their readout electronics, including the latest develo
• Titolo autorizzato: Silicon solid state devices and radiation detection
• ISBN: 1-299-28104-4; 981-4390-05-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465399903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II