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Appl Radiat Isot
; 60(2-4): 363-8, 2004.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-14987669
RESUMO
Cryogenic detectors offer remarkably better energy resolutions than those achievable with conventional semiconductor or scintillation detectors. With the additional asset of a detection efficiency close to unity for low-energy X-ray photons and electrons, these detectors have the potential to perform X-ray, gamma and electron spectroscopy of a hitherto unknown quality, in particular at low energies. Two types of cryogenic detectors are described and the results of prototype detectors are presented.