Semiconductor Radiation Detectors

Download or read book Semiconductor Radiation Detectors written by Gerhard Lutz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from basic principles, this book describes the rapidly growing field of modern semiconductor detectors used for energy and position measurement radiation. The author, whose own contributions to these developments have been significant, explains the working principles of semiconductor radiation detectors in an intuitive way. Broad coverage is also given to electronic signal readout and to the subject of radiation damage.