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Recent progress in CdTe and CdZnTe detectors

Takahashi et al., 2001

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1289374691761135295
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Takahashi T
Watanabe S
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IEEE Transactions on nuclear science

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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) and cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe) have been regarded as promising semiconductor materials for hard X-ray and/spl gamma/-ray detection. The high atomic number of the materials (Z/sub Cd/= 48, Z/sub Te/= 52) gives a high quantum …
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