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Since 1970 the subject of amoiphous semiconductors, in particular silicon, has progressed from obscurity to product commercialisation such as flat-panel hquid crystal displays, linear sensor arrays for facsimile machines, inexpensive solar panels, electrophotography, etc. Many other appHcations are at the developmental stage such as nuclear particle detectors, medical imaging, spatial light modulators for optical computing, and switches in neural networks (1,2). 

Fig. 4. Some electronic device applications using amorphous silicon (a) solar cell, (b) thin-fiLm transistor, (c) image sensor, and (d) nuclear particle detector.

G. Charpak (ficole Superieure de Physique et Chemie, Paris, and CERN Geneva) invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber. 

Figure 2. (a) Reflection TOF mass spectrometer, (b) Depicts the electrostatic potentials. With a judicious selection of potential, the daughter ions arising from metastable decay arrive at the detector prior to the parent ions which have higher kinetic energy. MCP denotes a microchannel plate charged particle detector, (a) Taken with permission from ref. 22 (b) Taken with permission from ref. 19. 

Future development of spectroscopic structure-determination methods will depend on the availability of more powerful photon and particle sources as well as advances in photon and particle detectors. Impressive progress has been made in molecular structure determinations based on advances in computation power and in computational algorithms, such as fast Fourier-transform techniques, for nearly every form of spectroscopy and diffraction analysis. Hajdu and co-work-... 

The physical process occurring in a low-temperature calorimeter as particle detectors are fully described in ref. [55,56], In the next sections, we will focus on the cryogenic aspect of a detector, examining the type of detector used in CUORICINO experiment (see Section 16.6). 

Nuclear particle detectors, hydrogenated amorphous silicon in, 22 135 Nuclear power, 6 813... 

Main uses of the metal. It is used as a medical tracer and for calibration of particle detectors. 

Of the explosives listed in Table 4, only those such as NG with vapour pressures greater than 10 Pa at 25°C are good candidates for the direct detection of vapour by current instrumental techniques. However, vapour pressure rises markedly with temperature. In addition, consideration of the thermal stability data in Table 4 offers the possibility of heating samples containing traces of involatile explosives such as RDX or PETN to increase their vapour pressure and render them detectable. This is the basis of the common technique of combining a heated inlet system with a vapour-type detector, for example, the method of desorption from a swab on a heated stage often used with IMS or TEA systems. This approach has greatly broadened the scope of what were previously viewed as vapour-type detectors and is now standard practice such instruments are now known as particle detectors. 

The study of galactic cosmic rays is perhaps more an exercise in taste than in visual appreciation. In fact we determine their composition without ever really seeing them. However, they constitute the only sample of matter in our possession that comes from outside the Solar System. The chemical and isotopic composition of this sample is measured using balloon- or satellite-borne particle detectors, since the Earth s atmosphere is fatal to them. When they slam into nuclei in the air, they fragment into tiny particles, thereby losing their original identity. 

For the comparison between CR39 and CR39/NIPAAm, the sensitivity of CR/NIPAm to ion particles was much higher than that for CR39 in LET ranges below 10 keV/pm [94], This indicates that CR/NIPAAm is very useful for an ion particle detector. 

The Chevron channel plate ion detector assembly of an imaging atom-probe can also be replaced by a position sensitive particle detector combined with a data processor, as reported by Cerezo etal.5s (A position sensitive detector was used earlier for the purpose of field ion image recording and processing.59) With such a detector both the chemical identity and the spatial origin on the emitter surface can be found for each field evaporated ion. This position sensitive atom-probe can be used to study the spatial distribution of different ion species on the emitter surface as well as inside the bulk of the emitter with a spatial resolution nearly comparable to the FIM. For such a purpose, one carries out the field evaporation at an extremely slow rate so that no more than one ion is detected from the entire field ion emitter surface in each pulsed field evaporation. From the flight time of the ion its chemical species is identified, and from the location of the detector where the ion is detected the spatial origin of the ion is located. With a fast data processor, a two-dimensional distribution of chemical species on the tip surface can be... 

The major components of the system include a krypton gas injector assembly, a radiation detector assembly, detector electronics and a data processor. The heart of the system is the radiotracer detector assembly which uses semiconductor charged particle detectors to measure the relative concn of tracer gas in the ullage. Krypton-85 is considered the safest radioisotope for such use since there is virtually no bodily retention of this gas... 

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