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1. a Wide Bandgap Semiconductors Group National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) Tsukuba Japan
2. b Advanced Power Electronics Research Center National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
4. c Faculty of Engineering Hokkaido University
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T. Shimaoka, S. Koizumi, J. H., et al. Recent progress in diamond radiation detectors[J]. Functional Diamond2021, 1(1): 205-220.
T. Shimaoka, S. Koizumi, J. H., et al. Recent progress in diamond radiation detectors[J]. Functional Diamond2021, 1(1): 205-220. DOI: 10.1080/26941112.2021.2017758.
This paper reviews recent progress in diamond radiation detectors. Diamond is an ultra-wide gap (5.5 eV) semiconducting material which has several ideal properties for radiation detectors
such as solar blindness
high temperature operation
and fast response. Furthermore
diamond has near tissue-equivalence due to its low atomic number (
Z
= 6) and chemical stability due to its strong covalent bonds. Because of these features
diamond has long been used as a radiation detector in the fields of nuclear engineering
nuclear fusion
high energy physics and medical therapy. Until the 1990s
most of the research was conducted using selected high purity natural diamonds. Since the 2000s
the detector characteristics of synthetic diamond detectors have been greatly improved by achieving high purity diamond by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Single-crystal CVD diamonds present best characteristics for spectroscopy in diamond radiation detectors. For applications requiring large sensitive areas
polycrystalline CVD diamond is mostly used. Heteroepitaxial diamond detectors are a promising alternative to increase the area of spectroscopic diamond radiation detectors. For applications in extrem
e environments
high radiation flux which leads to polarization effects is a crucial issue. Even with diamond
which has excellent radiation hardness
degradation of detector characteristics due to irradiation is inevitable. Detectors designed with small carrier travel distances
such as membrane diamond detectors and three-dimensional diamond radiation detectors
are effective ways to mitigate the degradation.
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