Abstract
The radiation used in spectroscopic experiments needs to be measured. Due to the wide field of applications, radiation detectors must satisfy a large number of different constraints. Requirements can be high sensitivity, large bandwidth, high speed, high stability, etc. Hence, a large number of different concepts and technical realizations exist for the detectors. Their characteristic and basic properties are:
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the quantum efficiency,
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the signal response,
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the detection limit, and
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the speed.
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Kuzmany, H. (1998). Detection of Electromagnetic Radiation. In: Solid-State Spectroscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03594-8_5
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