A 4.5 μm PIN diamond diode for detecting slow neutrons

Contributors:   Jason Holmes, Maitreya Dutta, Franz A. Koeck, Manpuneet Benipal, Jesse Brown, Benjamin Fox, Raghuraj Hathwar, Holly Johnson, Mohamadali Malakoutian, Mehdi Saremi, Anna Zaniewski, Ricardo Alarcon, Srabanti Chowdhury, Stephen M. Goodnick, and Robert J. Nemanich

ABSTRACT

The response of a PIN diamond diode with a 4.5 micro meter thick i-layer to -particles from a 210Po radioactive source has been measured and compared to the response from a 300 micro meter thick single crystal type IIa diamond. The results show that this PIN diamond diode with thin i-layer can be employed to detect slow neutrons following absorption on a converter boron layer. Such a detector will operate at low voltages and be rather insensitive to gamma background and neutron radiation damage.

Publisher: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment,   Volume: 903,   297-301 ||  Published: 2018-09 ||   PDF (430.67 KB) ||   Read More...