HR: 1330h
AN: SM43A-01    [Abstracts]
TI: A Comparison of the Effectiveness of new Solid State Detector Technology as Particle Detectors.
AU: * Shappirio, M
EM: Mark.D.Shappirio@nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Babu, S R
EM: Sachidananda.R.Babu@nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Herrero, F A
EM: Federico.A.Herrero@nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Yan, F
EM: Fyan@pop500.gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Funsten, H O
EM: hfunsten@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Labs, MS d-466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AU: Harper, R
EM: rharper@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Labs, MS d-466, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AB: There is great interest in expanding the use of solid state detectors (SSD) in the field of particle detection. For instance, extending the sensitivity of the detectors to lower energy particles could allow for simpler and thus smaller instrument designs. Several new technologies have been introduced recently in the region of semiconductor material for SSDs. This work will compare some of the more promising technologies to SSD material currently being used. In particular recent results from several laboratories make it possible to compare the properties of "100% internal quantum efficiency silicon photodiode", delta doped silicon, and silicon carbide (SiC) detectors and to compare these new technologies to pure silicon and germanium SSDs. The properties of interest are the detectors gain, ability to withstand the temperature extremes of space environments, radiation hardness, and responses to incident particles mass and energy particularly at low energies.
DE: 2794 Instruments and techniques
SC: SPA-Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly