Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Using 2.0 cm x 2.0 cm x 0.5 cm Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) substrates from the company Acrorad, we have fabricated detectors with planar cathode contacts and 8x8 anode pixels. We investigate the I-V characteristics and energy resolution of the detectors for different contact materials and surface treatments. After biasing the detectors for a certain period of time, the dark currents increase dramatically. Out studies show that the time before breakdown decreases for higher detector temperatures and higher applied bias voltages. We obtained the best results with a Pt cathode and In anode pixels when we heat the detector to 90 C for 30 minutes prior to depositing the In contacts. Flood-illuminating the detector with 662 keV X-rays, we measured the pulse length distribution and derived an electron mobility of ~860 cm^(2)/V/s. We show that the energy resolution can be improved by correcting the anode signals for the depth of the primary interaction. Operated at -40 C and cathode bias of -500 V, the best pixels of the best detector achieved full width half maximum (FWHM) energy resolutions of 8 keV (6.4%) and 23 keV (3.4%) at 122 keV and 662 keV, respectively.
Garson III Alfred B.
Jung Ira V.
Krawczynski Henric
Perkins Jeffrey
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