Researchers at IBM say they have developed a method that enables the fast, efficient manufacture of photodetectors that are compatible with CMOS production. Michael Hatcher reports. Optical ...

Nuclear regulators, front line officers, and technical support professionals from 24 countries shared their experiences using High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors to maintain and strengthen nuclear ...

Ever since physicist Ernest Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911, studying its structure and behavior has remained a challenging task. More than a century later, even with today's ...

Scientists have shown they can shield a sensitive, scalable 44-kilogram germanium detector array from background radioactivity. This accomplishment is critical to developing and proposing a much ...

A new p-type germanium radiation detector could be the first to measure "soft neutrino-nucleus scattering", a mechanism that was originally predicted 30 years ago. Neutrinos are elusive particles that ...

Researchers work on the delicate wiring of a cryostat, which chills the germanium detectors at the heart of the Majorana Demonstrator experiment. (Sanford Underground Research Facility Photo / Matthew ...

Photo of the experimental setup showing four high-purity germanium detectors surrounding the target chamber at the end of the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory beamline. This new research ...

If a radioactive source needs to be classified in various scenarios, the required information includes identification of the radioisotope(s) present and an estimation of the activity. In the field, ...