HEXITEC EPSRC OPEN DAY 18th SEPTEMBER 2008 |
A mid term review of the HEXITEC basic technology programme funded by EPSRC was held on the 18th September at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxford, UK. HEXITEC was funded by EPSRC to make, characterise, coat, bond and fabricate new pixellated detectors for high energy X-ray applications.
The meeting discussed progress in CZT growth, bonding, coating and pixellated device production. Potential applications of the fabricated detectors in security, medicine, space science defence and synchrotron radiation will be discussed.
A poster session was held from 12.00 until 13.30 covering the projects in more detail.
OPEN DAY AGENDA
| 10:00 | TEA/COFFEE on ARRIVAL |
|---|---|
| 10:20 | Professor Robert Cernik - University of Manchester 'An introduction to the HEXTIREC Basic Technology Project and progress to date' |
| 11:00 | Dr Geoff Harding - GE Instruments 'Next-Generation X-ray Diffraction Imaging in security screening' |
| 11.30 | Professor Paul Barnes - Birkbeck, University of London 'Applications of Tomographic Energy Dispersive Diffraction Imaging (TEDDI)' |
| 12:00 | LUNCH with POSTER SESSION |
| 13:30 | Dr Andy Boston - University of Liverpool 'The need for better detector materials for gamma-ray spectrometry' |
| 14:00 | Dr Arnab Basu - Kromek 'The use of Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) in Security Applications' |
| 14:30 | Dr Ian Jupp - DSTL 'The use of high efficiency X-ray detectors in the defence industry' |
| 15:00 | TEA/COFFEE |
| 15:20 | Professor Bruce Swinyard - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 'CZT and Space Science' |
| 15:50 | Open Session/Questions |
| 16:15 | MEETING CLOSE |
NEWS |
First Successful CdTe/GaAs Crystal
Key to the growth of large crystals, by MTPVT, is the availability of suitable seed plates. CdTe seed plates are scarce and expensive. An alternative is to grow the crystals on a foreign substrate which is readily available in larger diameter and less expensive – what we have termed bulk crystal heteroepitaxy. Photo shows the first successful CdTe/GaAs crystal, still in its growth tube.
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