Sensor Development for Single-Photon Thermoelectric Detectors

Authors

Armen Gulian, Chapman UniversityFollow
K. S. Wood, Naval Research Laboratory
G. G. Fritz, Naval Research Laboratory
D. Van Vechten, U.S. Office of Naval Research
H.-D. Wu, Naval Research Laboratory
J. S. Horwitz, Naval Research Laboratory
G. R. Badalyantz, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
S. R. Harutyunyan, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
V. H. Vartanyan, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
S. A. Petrosyan, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia
A. S. Kuzanyan, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

3-8-2002

Abstract

As we reported earlier [1], thermoelectric detectors can be competitive as nondispersive energy resolving focal-plane instruments in X-ray/UV spectrum. The first generations of prototype devices demonstrated the viability of detector design and provided good agreement between theoretical expectations and experimental data. These devices exploited sensors made of gold with a small fraction of iron impurity. To get the projected high resolution one needs another type of material, namely, lanthanum-cerium hexaborides. We report on the first experimental tests of the feasibility of lanthanum-cerium films as sensor materials. Progress with thin films of these materials argues for the success of these thermoelectric detectors.

Comments

This article was originally published in AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 605, issue 1, in 2002. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1457588

Recommended Citation

Gulian A.M., Wood K.S., Fritz G.G., Van Vechten D., Wu H.-D., Horwitz J.S., Badalyantz G.R., Harutyunyan S.R., Vartanyan V.H., Petrosyan S.A., Kuzanyan A.S. Sensor development for single-photon thermoelectric detectors. AIP Conference Proceedings (LTD-9), 2002, vol. 605, pp. 31-34. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1457588

Peer Reviewed

1

Copyright

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