Tag: NaI(Tl)
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Describe how the energy of a charged particle moving through this material is converted into optical photons and comment on why this type of detector will have poorer energy resolution for detecting gamma-rays than a typical germanium detector would have.
Sketch a graph for a 500 mm thick silicon detector showing the thickness of the depletion layer as a function of the applied reverse bias voltage, from the situation of zero voltage to when the detector becomes fully depleted. You may neglect the thicknesses of the n+ layer and the naturally occurring depletion layer at…