With advancements in space exploration, the extreme conditions of space—such as ionizing radiation, temperature gradients, and micrometeoroid impacts—pose significant challenges to the operational stability and longevity of space-based de...
The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ALICE detector is undergoing a major upgrade in the Second Long Shutdown of the LHC in 2019–2020. During this upgrade, the innermost detector, the Inner Tracking System, will be completely replaced by a new detect...
High-energy small electron beams, generated by linear accelerators, are used for radiotherapy of localized superficial tumours. The aim of the present study is to assess the dosimetric performance under small radiation therapy electron beams of the n...
Detection of X- and gamma-rays is essential to a wide range of applications from medical imaging to high energy physics, astronomy, and homeland security. Cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) is the most widely used material for room-temperature detector app...
The development of advanced detection systems for charged particles in laser-based accelerators and the need for precise time of flight measurements have led to the creation of detectors using ultra-thin plastic scintillators, indicating their use as...
In this paper, an adaptive, autocovariance-based event detection algorithm is proposed, which can be used with micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometer sensors to build inexpensive and power efficient event detectors. The algorithm works...
Nuclear power plant decommissioning requires the rapid and accurate classification of radioactive waste in narrow spaces and under time constraints. Photon-counting detector technology offers an effective solution for the quick classification and det...
Reliable terahertz radiometer receiver systems demand detectors that combine high sensitivity with structural robustness. This paper presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a 380 GHz zero-bias detector based on an ACST Schottky diod...
C-arm systems with digital flat-panel detectors are used in interventional radiology and hybrid operating rooms for visualizing and performing interventions on three-dimensional structures. Advances in C-arm technology have enabled intraoperative qua...
Charged aerosol detection (CAD) is increasingly used in liquid chromatography as a complementary detector for food compounds that are poorly suited to conventional UV or diode-array detection. This is particularly important for nonvolatile and weakly...
We present the characterization of a highly segmented “large area” hybrid pixel detector (Timepix3, 512 × 512 pixels, pixel pitch 55 µm) for application in space experiments. We demonstrate that the nominal power consumption o...
Lithium tantalate crystals, as a type of pyroelectric material, stand out from many other pyroelectric materials due to the advantages of high Curie temperature, large pyroelectric coefficient, high figure of merits, and environmental friendliness. D...
Infrared (IR) sensors are widely used in various applications due to their ability to detect infrared radiation. Currently, infrared detector technology is in its third generation and faces enormous challenges. IR radiation propagation is categorized...
Accurately detecting anomalies and timely interventions are critical for cloud application maintenance. Traditional methods for performance anomaly detection based on thresholds and rules work well for simple key performance indicator (KPI) monitorin...
Capacitive sensors implemented in complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology are widely used in lab-on-chip (LoC), biomedical, and microfluidic systems. While most capacitive sensor interfaces are designed for high-resolution capacitan...
We investigated a prototype virtual-pinhole positron emission tomography (PET) system for small-animal imaging applications. The PET detector modules were made up of 1.3 mm lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) arrays, and the insert detectors con...
The Compton scattering of gamma rays is commonly detected using two detector layers, the first for detection of the recoil electron and the second for the scattered gamma. We have assembled detector modules consisting of scintillation pixels, which a...
A 16-channel front-end readout chip for a radiation detector is designed for portable or wearable healthcare monitoring applications. The proposed chip reads the signal of the radiation detector and converts it into digital serial-out data by using a...
Ta/Ru/Co/Ru/Co/Cu/Co/Ni80Fe20/Ta spin-valve giant magnetoresistive (GMR) multilayers were deposited using UHV magnetron sputtering and optimized to achieve a 13% GMR ratio before patterning. The GMR multilayer was patterned into 12 sensor arrays usin...
Transducers, such as photodiodes, phototransistors, and photovoltaic cells are promising radiation detectors. However, for accurate radiation detection and dosimetry, signals that emanate from these devices have to be sufficient to facilitate accurat...
Herein, we review studies of the integration of Phoswich detectors with readout integrated circuits and the associated performance in a radiological sensing application. The basic concept and knowledge of interactions with scintillation materials and...
Photon-counting detector computed tomography (PCD-CT) represents a significant advancement in radiological imaging, offering substantial potential for cardiac applications that remain partially underexplored. This bibliometric analysis investigates t...
Polylactic acid (PLA) as a “green,” renewable corn-soy based polymer resin was assessed as a novel solid-state detector for rapid-turnaround gamma radiation dosimetry in the 1–100 kGy range–of significant interest in biomedica...
Spectral measurement technology has found extensive applications across a diverse range of fields, including chemical analysis, environmental monitoring, precise measurement, and laser frequency stabilization. However, the accuracy of spectral measur...
There are various non-destructive techniques for determining the internal properties of materials in fluids, semi-solids, solids, and biological tissue. One of these techniques is low-intensity ultrasonic testing. In this proceeding paper, a study on...
This article presents an innovative integration of Glow Discharge Detector Focal Plane Arrays (GDD FPA) with Chirped Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) Radar, enhancing millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging. The cost-effective FPA design using GDDs a...
HgCdSe has recently been proposed as a potential alternative material to HgCdTe for fabricating high-performance infrared detectors. This work presents a study on the growth of high-crystalline-quality HgCdSe materials on GaSb (211)B substrates via m...
The implementation of FLASH Radiotherapy (FLASH-RT), characterized by ultra-high dose rates (UHDRs) frequently exceeding
In recent years Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) have emerged as one of the most promising novel low temperature detector technologies. Their unrivaled scalability makes them very attractive for many modern applications and scientific i...
This review explores the applications of room temperature semiconductor detectors, with a focus on Cd(Zn)Te based detection systems, in non-destructive testing and evaluation (NDT&E). Cd(Zn)Te detectors, which operate efficiently at ambient tempe...
The effects of charge carrier trapping on image resolution in multilayer photoconductive imaging detectors was analyzed by developing an analytical model for calculating the modulation transfer function (MTF) of the imaging detectors. The MTF model w...
Micromegas (MICRO-MEsh GAseous Structure) detectors have found common use in different applications since their development in 1996 by the group of I. Giomataris and G. Charpak. In this review article, we present implementations of Micromegas sub-det...
We use fast silicon detectors and the fast sampling method originally developed for high energy physics for two applications: cosmic ray measurements in collaboration with NASA and dose measurements during flash beam cancer treatment. The cosmic ray...
Direct time-of-flight (dToF) ranging sensors based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) have been used as a prominent depth-sensing devices. Time-to-digital converters (TDCs) and histogram builders have become the standard for dToF sensors. Howe...
In view of the demand for high-quality thermal neutron detectors, boron films have recently attracted widespread research interest because of their special properties. In this work, we report on the deposition of boron films on silicon substrates by...
Wavelength shifters and their applications for liquid argon detectors have been a subject of extensive R&D procedures over the past decade. This work reviews the most recent results in this field. We compare the optical properties and usage detai...
Trojan Detection—the process of understanding the behaviour of a suspicious file has been the talk of the town these days. Existing approaches, e.g., signature-based, have not been able to classify them accurately as Trojans. This paper propose...
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a compound semiconductor, which is considered as a possible alternative to silicon for particles and photons detection. Its characteristics make it very promising for the next generation of nuclear and particle physics experi...
Over the last decade, cadmium telluride (CdTe) and cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe) wide band gap semiconductors have attracted increasing interest as X-ray and gamma ray detectors. Among the traditional high performance spectrometers based on silicon...
This paper presents a passive Envelope Detector (ED) to be used for reception of OOK-modulated signals, such as in Wake-Up Receivers employed within Wireless Sensor Networks, widely used in the IoT. The main goal is implementing a temperature compens...
This article presents and discusses the structure, principle of operation, and operational properties of a newly developed interference level detector (ILD) designed to measure conducted supraharmonic disturbances (1–150 kHz) in the power grid...
Background: Caries detector dyes are introduced to aid in identifying infected dentine. Many researchers claim that they are not specific in identifying infected dentine since dyes also stains sound tooth surfaces. The use of a dentine bonding agent...
Object detection on aerial and satellite imagery is an important tool for image analysis in remote sensing and has many areas of application. As modern object detectors require accurate annotations for training, manual and labor-intensive labeling is...
In this paper, we investigate the performance of a detector recently proposed by us that is applied in the relay station receiving signals from two terminals concurrently exchanging data in the two-way relaying system. This is one of the potential co...
CdZnTe (CZT) films were grown by closed space sublimation (CSS) method on (111)-oriented CZT wafers, non-oriented CZT wafers and FTO substrates. The compositional and morphological properties of CZT films on different substrates were characterized by...
Although many refractory metals have been investigated as the choice of contact metal in 4H-SiC devices, palladium (Pd) as a Schottky barrier contact for 4H-SiC radiation detectors for harsh environment applications has not been investigated adequate...
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) require precise small-field dosimetry, verified through patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA). This study evaluated the feasibility of using a single-crystal cadmium&n...
A series of Zn1−xMgxO thin films with x ranging from 0 to 0.8 were prepared by spin coating and aerosol spray pyrolysis deposition on Si and quartz substrates. The morphology, composition, nano-crystalline structure, and optical and vibration p...
Raman spectroscopy is a novel tool used in the on-line monitoring and control of bioprocesses, offering both quantitative and qualitative determination of key process variables through spectroscopic analysis. However, the wide-spread application of R...
Ultrasonic morphology modification of silver (Ag) nanowires and their applications in transparent film heaters for defogging in electric vehicles and surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detectors have been studied. With 10 min ultrasonic treatme...
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