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GaAs Schottky Barrier Detectors for Alpha-Particle Spectrometry at Temperatures up to 120°C

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GaAs Schottky barrier detectors for α particle spectrometry have been tested. Detectors had an input window area of 80 mm2 and a working barrier layer thickness of 40–50 μm. The energy resolution (FWHM) measured on 5.499 MeV α line of 238Pu source amounted to 17.5 keV at a generator peak width of 7.8 keV. In the measurements on a 226Ra source, detectors showed linear response and nearly 100% charge collection efficiency at reverse bias above 65 V for all energies of α particles emitted from the source. Tests for thermal stability showed that the proposed detectors can be used in alpha-spectrometry of radionuclides at temperatures up to 120°C.

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  1. National University of Science and Technology MISiS (Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys), Moscow, 101000, Russia

    A. V. Chernykh, S. V. Chernykh, S. I. Didenko, F. M. Baryshnikov & E. V. Sleptsov

  2. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, 050032, Kazakhstan

    N. Burtebaev, Maulen Nasurlla & Marzhan Nasurlla

  3. Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, 050040, Kazakhstan

    Maulen Nasurlla & Marzhan Nasurlla

  4. A.A. Logunov Institute for High Energy Physics, National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Protvino, Moscow oblast, 142281, Russia

    G. I. Britvich

  5. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119333, Russia

    A. P. Chubenko

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Chernykh, S.V. Chernykh, S.I. Didenko, N. Burtebaev, Maulen Nasurlla, Marzhan Nasurlla, G.I. Britvich, A.P. Chubenko, F.M. Baryshnikov, E.V. Sleptsov, 2018, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2018, Vol. 44, No. 20, pp. 87–94.

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Chernykh, A.V., Chernykh, S.V., Didenko, S.I. et al. GaAs Schottky Barrier Detectors for Alpha-Particle Spectrometry at Temperatures up to 120°C. Tech. Phys. Lett. 44, 942–945 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106378501810019X

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