Supervisor : Dr John Lees (lee@le.ac.uk)

Details of Project

There is an increasing demand for radiation detectors that can operate in extremely harsh environments such as in space and the automotive, aeronautic and nuclear industries. For example, planetary exploration places high demands on instrumentation, including extreme thermal operating conditions, low mass, stringent power constraints and high radiation tolerance.

Compound Semiconductors X-ray detectors for Space and Terrestrial applications

Compound semiconductors detectors combined with the rapid development of radiation hard electronics will lead to full systems that will operate at elevated temperatures and in radiation environments which would be unsuitable for most currently available spectroscopic detector systems. Future development of compound semiconductors detectors will lead, in principle, to X-ray imaging spectroscopic arrays capable of meeting the most stringent demands of future space missions and industrial applications in harsh terrestrial environments.