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silicon surface barrier detector

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silicon surface barrier detector [′sil·ə·kən ¦sər·fəs ¦bar·ē·ər di‚tek·tər]
(nucleonics)
A type of junction detector made from a wafer ofn-type silicon which is subjected to etching and surface treatments to create a thin layer ofp-type material and then receives a thin layer of gold evaporated onto the surface.


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The reaction products, alphas or tritons, are counted by a set of four silicon surface barrier detectors in a well-characterized geometry.
6 Proton Detector Efficiency The proton detector will consist of a thin, cooled silicon surface barrier detector and front-end preamp package surrounded by a hemispherical wire grid at -25 kV to accelerate the protons.
 
 
 
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