Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiple-mode radiation detector
- Patent Title (中): 多模式辐射探测器
-
Application No.: US14192688Application Date: 2014-02-27
-
Publication No.: US09116249B1Publication Date: 2015-08-25
- Inventor: Liam D. Claus , Mark S. Derzon , Randolph R. Kay , Todd Bauer , Douglas Chandler Trotter , Michael David Henry
- Applicant: Sandia Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Assignee: Sandia Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sandia Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Agent Martin I. Finston
- Main IPC: G01T1/20
- IPC: G01T1/20 ; G01T1/16 ; G01T1/24 ; G01T3/00 ; G01T3/06 ; G01T3/08

Abstract:
An apparatus for detecting radiation is provided. In embodiments, at least one sensor medium is provided, of a kind that interacts with radiation to generate photons and/or charge carriers. The apparatus also includes at least one electrode arrangement configured to collect radiation-generated charge from a sensor medium that has been provided. The apparatus also includes at least one photodetector configured to produce an electrical output in response to photons generated by radiation in such a sensor medium, and an electronic circuit configured to produce an output that is jointly responsive to the collected charge and to the photodetector output. At least one such electrode arrangement, at least one such photodetector, and at least one such sensor medium are combined to form an integral unit.
Information query