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Towards Imaging with Polycrystalline Mercuric Iodide Semiconductor Detectors

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Preparation of polycrystalline mercuric iodide very thin (1 µm) films using laser ablation and thick films (100–600µm), using hot pressing, hot wall vapor deposition and screen printing methods, fabricated as radiation detector plates are briefly described. X-ray diffraction, photoluminescence and optical microscopic measurements as well as response to nuclear radiation will be given. Finally, recent results obtained with a large area imaging pixel detector will be shown.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to acknowledge Prof. E. Grilli for helpful discussions. The technical assistance of G. Claus and C. Illinger for the design of the two hybrids was an essential contribution. The Hebrew University authors wish to acknowledge the Burt M. Lynn Memorial Research Endowment Fund for partial support of this work.

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  1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

    M. Schieber, A. Zuck, M. Braiman, L. Melekhov & J. Nissenbaum

  2. Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, Ca, 94550

    M. Schieber

  3. LEPSI (ULP/IN2P3), Strasbourg, France

    R. Turchetta, W. Dulinski, D. Husson & J. L. Riester

  4. Dep. of Electr. and Computer Eng., Camige Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

    T. E. Schlesinger & J. Toney

  5. I.N.F.M. and Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Universita’degli Studi di Milano, I-20126, Milano, Italy

    S. Sanguinetti, M. Montalti & M. Guzzi

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Schieber, M., Zuck, A., Braiman, M. et al. Towards Imaging with Polycrystalline Mercuric Iodide Semiconductor Detectors. MRS Online Proceedings Library 487, 329–337 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-487-329

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