Development of CdTe radiation detectors and their Applications

Abstract

We have been developing radiation detectors using cadmium telluride (CdTe), which has the high radiation absorption characteristic. The image pickup tube using polycrystalline CdTe thin film has been developed at the first stage. Furthermore, the X-ray imaging line sensor with high scanning speed and the radiation spectrometer with thermo-electric Peltier cooler were developed by using CdTe single crystal, which has high electric charge collection characteristics. At present, the energy discriminating photon counting radiation line sensors are developing. In this presentation, the feature of the detector using CdTe and their applications are described using examples of development until now.