The silicon-based diodes coated with a thin film of neutron reactive materials have been shown to produce excellent neutron detectors. We have fabricated the thin-film-coated single Si-PIN neutron detectors and stacke...The silicon-based diodes coated with a thin film of neutron reactive materials have been shown to produce excellent neutron detectors. We have fabricated the thin-film-coated single Si-PIN neutron detectors and stacked ones coupled in series and parallel in this work. The stacked detectors show the advantage of improving the detection efficiency of neutron detecting, which essentially attributes to the increase of the effective detection area. It is shown that the stacked detector in series has more superior performance than the parallel one. This work provides a feasible method to develop solid-state semiconductor neutron detectors with high neutron detection efficiency and high response speed.展开更多
文摘The silicon-based diodes coated with a thin film of neutron reactive materials have been shown to produce excellent neutron detectors. We have fabricated the thin-film-coated single Si-PIN neutron detectors and stacked ones coupled in series and parallel in this work. The stacked detectors show the advantage of improving the detection efficiency of neutron detecting, which essentially attributes to the increase of the effective detection area. It is shown that the stacked detector in series has more superior performance than the parallel one. This work provides a feasible method to develop solid-state semiconductor neutron detectors with high neutron detection efficiency and high response speed.
