This facility provides assistance to users from federal laboratories, U.S. industry and academia in the following areas: (1) testing and characterizing radiation detector materials and devices; and (2) determining the relationships between the physical properties of the detector materials and the device response. Systems of interest include scintillators and room-temperature semiconductors for detection arrays of x-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.
User Support
The facility's special capabilities include:
The facility also offers a professional and technical staff skilled in electronics, characterization of deep-level traps and carrier recombination centers, device fabrication, and detector testing.
This facility is available to support any application that can benefit from its unique capabilities.