A class of boron-rich solid-state neutron detectors

  • B. W. Robertson
    Departments of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
  • S. Adenwalla
    Departments of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
  • A. Harken
    Departments of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
  • P. Welsch
    Departments of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
  • J. I. Brand
    Departments of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
  • P. A. Dowben
    Departments of Mechanical Engineering and of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Materials Research and Analysis, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
  • J. P. Claassen
    Veterans Administration Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68105

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公開日
2002-05-13
DOI
  • 10.1063/1.1477942
公開者
AIP Publishing

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<jats:p>Real-time solid-state neutron detectors have been fabricated from semiconducting boron–carbon alloys, deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Single neutrons were detected and signals induced by gamma rays were determined to be insignificant. The source gas closo-1,2-dicarbadodecaborane (ortho-carborane) was used to fabricate the boron–carbon alloys with only the natural isotopic abundance of B10. Devices made of thicker boron–carbon alloy layers enriched in B10 could lead to increased detection efficiency and active diodes could use the inherent micron scale spatial resolution, increasing the range of possible applications.</jats:p>

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